People v. Patterson

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Aloise, J.), rendered January 8, 2007, convicting him of murder in the second 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.

On November 13, 2006, the testimony in this case was completed. The next morning, the attorneys delivered their summations and the court instructed the jury. The jury sent the court two notes that day. In the…