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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Angel Caines, Also Known as Ansel Caines, Appellant.
    [599 NYS2d 954]
   —Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Clifford A. Scott, J.), rendered January 8, 1992, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a weapon in the second and third degrees, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 25 years to life and 8 years to life, respectively, unanimously reversed, on the law, and the matter remanded for a new trial.

As the People concede, it was error for the trial court, over the defendant’s objection, to submit a verdict sheet to the jury listing an element of the crimes charged, even if done to clarify the essential distinction between criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree (People v Taylor, 76 NY2d 873). Concur—Murphy, P. J., Sullivan, Milonas, Asch and Nardelli, JJ.