People v. Coles

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Richard Lee Price, J.), rendered September 14, 1995, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of robbery in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 9 to 18 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court did not delegate a judicial function to a court officer with respect to a note from the deliberating jury. “Although we have previously indicated that we do not condone use of court personnel to request jury clarification of a facially unclear note” (People v Thomas, 190 AD2d 541, 542, lv denied 81 NY2d 1021), there is no…