Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, and a new trial is ordered.
The People correctly concede that the trial court committed reversible error when, after defense counsel made his peremptory challenges, it permitted the prosecutor to exercise a peremptory challenge to exclude a prospective juror because he was of Haitian ancestry (see, J.E.B. v Alabama,
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