People v. Ramadhan

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Ruth Pickholz, J.), rendered June 3, 2004, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of burglary in the second degree, and sentencing him to a term of eight years, unanimously modified, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, to the extent of reducing the sentence to a term of four years, and otherwise affirmed.

The court properly responded to a note from the deliberating jury by defining the crime of coercion and informing the jury that if defendant entered the premises in question with intent to commit that crime, this would satisfy the…