People v. Gale

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (McKay, J.), rendered October 18, 2007, convicting him of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, and violation of Vehicle and Traffic Law § 1227 (1), upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, and a new trial is ordered.

On the second day of deliberations, the jury informed the Supreme Court that it could not agree on a verdict. The Supreme Court responded by instructing the jury that it should continue to deliberate on the two counts upon which it was *904inst…