People v. Gathers

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Richard Lee Price, J.), rendered September 17, 2002, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of manslaughter in the second degree, and sentencing him to a term of 4½ to 13½ years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s contention that the trial court did not provide a meaningful response to a jury note is unpreserved and we decline to review it in the interest of justice. Were we to review this claim, we would find that, after considering the note it received from a dissenting juror about allegedly belligerent conduct by other jurors, as well as a collective…