People v. Sykes

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Budd Goodman, J.), rendered July 12, 1994, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of burglary in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 3 to 6 years, unanimously affirmed.

When the jury was brought into the courtroom so that the court could respond to its note requesting the readback of testimony, the foreperson announced that the jury had reached a verdict as to one of the charges in the indictment. The court reminded the foreperson that he was to write a note indicating that a verdict had been reached and…