People v. Smith

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Marrus, J.), rendered January 11, 1996, convicting him of murder in the second degree (two counts), burglary in the first degree, and assault in the first degree (two counts), upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

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

The sequence of events surrounding the jury’s multiple, and in some respects repetitious, requests for readbacks of certain *414trial testimony is accurately set forth in the Supreme Court’s opinion (see, People v Smith, 168 Misc…