People v. Quattlebaum

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (McKay, J), rendered March 16, 2007, convicting him of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

During jury selection, the defendant objected, pursuant to Batson v Kentucky (476 US 79 [1986]), to the prosecution’s exercise of two peremptory challenges. The defendant contends that the court erred in allowing one of those challenges. The prosecution satisfied its obligation to provide facially race-neutral reasons for rejecting…