People v. Levon

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Broomer, J.), rendered March 25, 1987, convicting him of burglary in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the case is remitted to the Supreme Court, Kings County, to hear and report on the prosecutor’s exercise of peremptory challenges, and the appeal is held in abeyance in the interim. The Supreme Court is to file its report with all convenient speed.

Once the defendant had established a prima facie case of purposeful discrimination in jury selection by the prosecutor, it became…