People v. Farrell

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County, entered November 4, 1976, after a jury trial, which convicted the defendant of two counts of robbery in the second degree (Penal Law, § 160.10) and sentenced him to two concurrent 6- to 12-year terms of imprisonment, unanimously affirmed. As to the point raised with regard to the colloquy between the Justice presiding at the trial and a juror during the polling process, while it might have been preferable, when the possibility of a doubt in the juror’s mind was indicated, to send the jury back into session for a resolution of the doubt, in the…