People v. Khalek

—Appeal by the People from an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Aiello, J.), entered May 30, 1995, which granted the defendant’s motion to set aside a jury verdict convicting him of sexual abuse in the first degree.

Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law, the jury verdict is reinstated, and the matter is remitted to the Supreme Court, Kings County, for further proceedings.

*481It was within the scope of the "administerial duties” (CPL 310.10) of the court officers to tell the jurors, who had been directed by the court to stop their deliberations, that they should stop deliberating…