State v. Rodriguez

The defendant appeals from a judgment of conviction of robbery in the first degree rendered after a jury trial. The defendant claims that the trial court improperly (1) overruled his Batson challenges to the prosecution’s exercise of its peremptory challenges, (2) denied the defendant access to police internal affairs files concerning allegations of misconduct by prosecution witnesses for use in cross-examination, (3) refused to declare a mistrial after the state attempted to introduce irrelevant and prejudicial evidence of the defendant’s prior arrest record, and (4) violated the defendant’s…