—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Kron, J.), rendered December 18, 2000, convicting him of murder in the second degree, robbery in the first degree, criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, and reckless endangerment in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, and a new trial is ordered.
The trial court committed reversible error when, after the defense counsel made his peremptory challenges, it permitted the prosecutor to belatedly exercise a peremptory challenge to
The defendant’s challenge to the reckless endangerment charge as a lesser-included offense of murder in the second degree (see CPL 1.20 [37]) is unpreserved for appellate review (see People v Ford,
In light of our determination that a new trial is required, we need not reach the defendant’s remaining contentions. Florio, J.P., Schmidt, Crane and Cozier, JJ., concur.