People v. Backus
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Felice Shea, J.), rendered February 22, 1991, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of two counts of robbery in the second degree and sentencing him as a second violent felony offender to concurrent terms of imprisonment of 5 to 10 years, unanimously affirmed.
Defendant contends that the trial court’s response to the jury foreperson’s oral request that the jury be permitted to continue its deliberations rather than be sequestered compromised his right to be tried by a jury of twelve and constituted an unduly coercive Allen charge in that it…
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