People v. Gibian

*584Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (R. Doyle, J.), rendered January 17, 2007, convicting him of murder in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, and the matter is remitted to the Supreme Court, Suffolk County, for a new trial.

The defendant identifies three significant grounds for reversal of his conviction; to wit: the preclusion, on hearsay grounds, of statements purportedly made by the defendant’s mother; juror misconduct during deliberations; and the summary curtailment of…