People v. Chery

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Griffin, J.), rendered May 14, 2012, convicting him of robbery in the second degree (two counts) and criminal possession of stolen property in the fifth degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence. By decision and order dated May 21, 2014, this Court remitted the matter to the Supreme Court, Queens County, to hear and report on the defendant’s challenge to the prosecutor’s exercise of peremptory challenges against black venire persons, and held the appeal in abeyance in the interim (see People v Chery, 117…