People v. Phillip

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (McKay, J.), rendered July 24, 2001, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant challenges the reasons offered by the prosecutor for using a peremptory challenge against two black jurors. However, contrary to the defendant’s contention, the trial court *879properly determined that the reasons offered by the prosecutor were not pretextual. The prosecutor proffered race-neutral reasons for…