People v. Wellington

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Roger Hayes, J.), rendered November 27, 1996, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of burglary in the first degree, robbery in the second and third degrees, assault in the second and third degrees, and grand larceny in the fourth degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to an aggregate term of 7 to 14 years, unanimously affirmed.

*57Defendant’s application pursuant to Batson v Kentucky (476 US 79) was properly denied. The record supports the court’s findings that the prosecutor provided race-neutral, nonpretextual reasons for the…