Court Opinion

ID: 6047935
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-13 14:34:01.706083+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:51:37.013608
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—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Reinaldo E. Rivera, J.), rendered May 13, 1998, convicting her of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The trial court properly seated a white prospective juror against whom defense counsel and counsel for the codefendant had jointly exercised a peremptory challenge. Counsel for the defendant originally stated that he did not object to the juror, and only offered a race-neutral explanation for the challenge after counsel for the codefendant admitted that he had no basis for his challenge other than a “gut feeling”. Accordingly, the court properly rejected the later, race-neutral explanation (see, People v Kern, 75 NY2d 638, 657-658; People v Jupiter, 210 AD2d 431).
The sentence imposed was not excessive (see, People v Delgado, 80 NY2d 780, 781-782; People v Suitte, 90 AD2d 80). Joy, J. P., Altman, Goldstein and H. Miller, JJ., concur.