People v. Pellot

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (William Leibovitz, J.), rendered December 3, 1997, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 4V2 to 9 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s application pursuant to Batson v Kentucky (476 US 79) was properly denied. The court, whose determinations with regard to pretext are entitled to great deference (see, People v Hernandez, 75 NY2d 350, affd 500 US 352; People v Wint, 237 AD2d 195, lv denied 89 NY2d 1103), properly…