Legal Opinion
People v. Jacobs
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided September 23, 2008PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Leventhal, J.), rendered June 6, 2006, convicting him of murder in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant contends that the Supreme Court erred in denying his Batson challenge (see Batson v Kentucky, 476 US 79 [1986]) because the prosecutor’s explanation for exercising a peremptory challenge with respect to a male juror was a pretext for gender discrimination. However, since the defendant…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Batson v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- People v. AllenNew York Court of Appeals · 1995
- People v. PayneNew York Court of Appeals · 1996
- People v. JamesNew York Court of Appeals · 2002
- People v. ThompsonAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2006
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3Cited by3 opinions
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- People v. AllenAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2010