People v. Salinas

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Ruchelsman, J.), rendered May 25, 2001, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree (three counts) and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant’s contention that the Supreme Court failed to rule on the prosecutor’s proffered explanations for challenging *567three potential jurors in response to the defendant’s Batson application (see Batson v Kentucky, 476 US 79 [1986])…