People v. Linley

— Appeal by the defen*697dant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Holdman, J.), rendered June 14, 2007, convicting him of attempted grand larceny in the third degree and criminal possession of stolen property in the fifth degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant’s assertion that the trial court erred in denying his Batson challenge (see Batson v Kentucky, 476 US 79 [1986]) is unpreserved for appellate review and, in any event, is without merit. The prosecutor’s race-neutral explanations for using a peremptory challenge…