Case Name: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Dwayne Baldwin, Also Known as Dewayne Baldwin, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2002-09-30
Citations: 297 A.D.2d 818
Docket Number: 
Parties: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Dwayne Baldwin, Also Known as Dewayne Baldwin, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 297
Pages: 818–819

Head Matter:
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Dwayne Baldwin, Also Known as Dewayne Baldwin, Appellant.
[747 NYS2d 810]

Opinion:
The prosecution advanced sufficient race-neutral explana tions for exercising peremptory challenges against the prospective jurors in question (see People v Payne, 88 NY2d 172, 183; People v Allen, 86 NY2d 101). The defendant failed to satisfy his burden of proving that the explanations given by the prosecutor were pretextual (see People v Payne, supra; People v White, 289 AD2d 270; see generally Hernandez v New York, 500 US 352, 364-365). Accordingly, the trial court properly denied the defendant's Batson challenge (see Batson v Kentucky, 476 US 79).
The sentence imposed was not excessive (see People v Suitte, 90 AD2d 80). S. Miller, J.P., Crane, Cozier and Rivera, JJ., concur.