People v. Thompson

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Wade, J.), rendered March 17, 1995, convicting him of assault in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

There is no merit to the defendant’s contention that the prosecution failed to make a prima facie showing that the defense exercised its peremptory challenges on the basis of race. A defendant may not exercise his peremptory challenges in a manner which purposefully excludes prospective jurors who…