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

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Daniel Vargas, Appellant.
    [51 NYS3d 873]
   Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Eugene Oliver, J.), rendered December 2, 2014, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of burglary in the first, second and third degrees and assault in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to an aggregate term of 10 years, 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 signed, written consent before replacing a deliberating juror (People v Page, 88 NY2d 1 [1996]). In light of this determination, we find it unnecessary to reach defendant’s remaining contentions.

Concur—Sweeny, J.P., Richter, Andrias, Feinman and Kahn, JJ.