Billy v. Cunningham

MEMORANDUM, ORDER, AND JUDGMENT

JACK B. WEINSTEIN, Senior District Judge:

Petitioner is confined in a state prison following his conviction of assault in the first degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree.

He argues that his conviction was constitutionally tainted because the trial court improperly rejected a peremptory challenge asserted by his counsel on the ground that it was impermissibly discriminatory on the basis of national origin in violation of Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 106 S.Ct. 1712, 90 L.Ed.2d 69 (1986). See Reply Mem. L. Further Supp. Pet’r.’s Pet. for…