People v. Ford

*880OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.

The court’s direction to the court officer to "[t]ake the jury out to dinner and a hotel” was not an improper delegation of judicial authority (see, People v Bonaparte, 78 NY2d 26 [decided herewith]). There is no indication on this record that the court officer’s communications to the jury in attempting to carry out those instructions were anything other than ministerial.

Further, defense counsel did not ask the court to deliver a sequestration instruction to the jury. Consequently, any claim that the court…