People v. Bordas

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Gerald Sheindlin, J.), rendered June 5,1991, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of kidnapping in the first degree, attempted grand larceny in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, and sentencing him to concurrent terms of 20 years to life, 21ls to 7 years and 21h to 7 years, respectively, unanimously affirmed.

As we previously found on the codefendant’s appeal (People v Mendez, 221 AD2d 162, 163), it was proper in these circumstances for the trial court to have inquired whether the jury, after deliberating for…