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

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v John Billini, Appellant.
    [682 NYS2d 591]
   —Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Gerald Sheindlin, J.), rendered December 18, 1996, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of attempted murder in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 12 V2 to 25 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s inadequate showing of a Batson violation justified the court’s summary denial of his claim. Moreover, defendant was not prejudiced by the lack of a further opportunity to be heard, because the existing record clearly shows that defendant would not have been able to make out a prima facie case of discrimination. Concur—Sullivan, J. P., Nardelli, Williams and Andrias, JJ.