Opinion
(Ind. No. 13382/97)
Submitted September 20, 2001.
October 9, 2001.
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Kreindler, J.), rendered January 5, 1999, convicting him of robbery in the first degree (two counts), upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Lynn W. L. Fahey, New York, N.Y. (Debra E. Baker of counsel), for appellant.
Charles J. Hynes, District Attorney, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Leonard Joblove and Diane R. Eisner of counsel), for respondent.
Before: CORNELIUS J. O'BRIEN, J.P., WILLIAM D. FRIEDMANN, NANCY E. SMITH, BARRY A. COZIER, JJ.
DECISION ORDER
ORDERED that the judgment is affirmed.
We have previously examined the issues raised on this appeal on the codefendant's appeal (see, People v. Fergas, 272 A.D.2d 340). In Fergas, we held that the trial court properly determined that the facially race-neutral reasons proffered by the codefendant's counsel in response to the People's reverse-Batson objection were pretextual (see, People v. Louis, 239 A.D.2d 435; People v. Richie, 217 A.D.2d 84; People v. Bailey, 200 A.D.2d 677; see also, People v. Willard, 226 A.D.2d 1014; People v. Jupiter, 210 A.D.2d 431). The same result is required here, since the defendant's counsel also proffered reasons which were pretextual in response to the People's reverse-Batson objection.
O'BRIEN, J.P., FRIEDMANN, SMITH and COZIER, JJ., concur.