People v. Adams

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Garnett, J.), rendered July 18, 2011, convicting him of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the second degree, and failure to signal, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The Supreme Court properly denied the defendant’s Batson challenge (see Batson v Kentucky, 476 US 79 [1986]) to the prosecutor’s exercise of a peremptory challenge to exclude a certain black male prospective juror. The…