Opinion
June 1, 1998
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Queens County (Rios, J.).
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The trial court properly found that the defendant failed to make the requisite prima facie showing that the People used their peremptory challenges in an impermissibly-discriminatory manner ( see, Batson v Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79; People v. Childress, 81 N.Y.2d 263). Thus, the court properly did not require the People to proffer nondiscriminatory reasons for the challenges ( see, Hernandez v. New York, 500 U.S. 352; People v. Childress, supra).
The defendant's remaining contentions are without merit.
Mangano, P. J., Thompson, Santucci and Altman, JJ., concur.