People v. Wood

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Suffolk County (Cohen, J.), rendered March 23, 2011, convicting him of attempted murder in the second degree, criminal use of a firearm in the first degree, and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree (two counts), upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

Contrary to the defendant’s contention, the prosecutor offered a race-neutral explanation for exercising a peremptory challenge as to prospective juror number six in the third round of jury selection (see Purkett v Elem, 514 US…