People v. Cespedes

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Jill Konviser, J.), rendered February 21, 2012, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of assault in the second degree, unlawful imprisonment in the first degree, reckless endangerment in the second degree and obstructing governmental administration in the second degree, and sentencing him to an aggregate term of five years, unanimously affirmed.

The court meaningfully responded to a note from the deliberating jury (see People v Almodovar, 62 NY2d 126, 131 [1984]; People v Malloy, 55 NY2d 296, 301-302 [1982], cert denied 459 US 847 [1982]). The jury…