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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Orlando Russell, Appellant.
    [650 NYS2d 601]
   —Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (J. Goldberg, J.), rendered January 3, 1995, convicting him of criminal trespass in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

We find no basis in the record to disturb the trial court’s determination to seat a prospective juror after its finding that defense counsel’s race-neutral explanation for challenging that juror was pretextual (see, People v Payne, 88 NY2d 172; People v Allen, 86 NY2d 101). Rosenblatt, J. P., O’Brien, Thompson and McGinity, JJ., concur.