People v. Issac

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Dorothy Cropper, J.), rendered November 4, 1996, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of robbery in the first degree (2 counts), robbery in the second degree (2 counts) and resisting arrest, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to two concurrent terms of 12V2 to 25 years concurrent with two concurrent terms of 7V2 to 15 years and a term of 1 year, respectively, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly denied defendant’s Batson challenge (see, People v Payne, 88 NY2d 172, 183-184). The record clearly reveals that the prosecutor had a…