People v. Martinez

Appeal from judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Gerald Sheindlin, J.), rendered January 4, 1991, convicting the defendant, upon a jury verdict, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and sentencing him, as a predicate felony offender, to an indeterminate term of imprisonment of from four and one-half to nine years, unanimously held in abeyance, and the matter is remitted for a hearing to determine the court’s response to the jury’s note sent to the court at 2:40 p.m. on December 11, 1990, during deliberations.

The jury sent three notes to the court during their…