People v. Claudio

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Leslie Crocker Snyder, J.), rendered October 15, 1992, which convicted defendant, after a jury trial, of attempted murder in the second degree, conspiracy in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, and imposed sentence thereon, unanimously reversed, on the law, and the matter remanded for a new trial.

This appeal involves the procedure for determining whether peremptory challenges were used to exclude potential jurors on account of race (see Batson v Kentucky, 476 US 79 [1986]). Defendant claims that, among other…