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

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Joseph Rodriguez, Appellant.
    [647 NYS2d 946]
   —Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Frank Diaz, J.), rendered August 10, 1993, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of murder in the second degree, and sentencing him to a term of 15 years to life, unanimously reversed, on the law, and the matter remanded for a new trial.

As the People concede, reversal is required because the court did not obtain defendant’s written consent before replacing a deliberating juror (People v Page, 88 NY2d 1). Since we reject defendant’s contention that there was insufficient evidence to establish his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, we remand the matter for a new trial. Concur—Rosenberger, J. P., Ellerin, Williams, Mazzarelli and Andrias, JJ.