People v. Wint

*363We agree with defendant that the prosecutor’s exercise of eight of its first nine peremptory challenges against African-American jurors constituted a pattern of strikes against a cognizable group of jurors raising an inference of discrimination (see, People v Wilkins, 214 AD2d 449, lv denied 86 NY2d 875; People v Doran, 195 AD2d 364). Such a showing constituted a prima facie case of discrimination, and the trial court erred in failing to require the prosecutor to give racially neutral explanations for his challenges (People v Doran, supra). Accordingly, we remand this matter for a Batson…