People v. Jackson

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Rosalyn Richter, J), rendered July 24, 2002, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of burglary in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to a term of 13 years, unanimously affirmed.

After the jury returned its verdict, but before the jury was polled, defendant punched his attorney in the face and then engaged in a lengthy and violent struggle with numerous court officers, injuring some of them, much of which occurred in the jury’s presence. The court then had two communications with the jury in a nearby…