Snediker v. County of Orange

*649OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed, with costs.

Though, in the spirit of Alford v Sventek (53 NY2d 743, 745), the oral communication from the juror to the Trial Judge, and the communication between the juror and the clerk regarding the juror’s wife’s desire that the juror telephone her, should have been conveyed to counsel, we agree with the Appellate Division that, in light of the undisputed nature of these communications, no prejudice resulted. Moreover, on the record of this case, there was no showing of the “substantial risk of prejudice”…