People v. Ramos

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Berke, J.), rendered February 17, 1994, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

During the voir dire, defense counsel objected to the prosecutor’s use of peremptory challenges against "young minority persons”. After the trial court denied this objection, noting that it was not established that the prosecutor had discriminated against young people, defense counsel asserted that he was objecting to…