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

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Keith Hinds, Appellant.
    [760 NYS2d 841]
   —Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Budd Goodman, J.), rendered July 13, 2000, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree (three counts) and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to an aggregate term of 10 to 20 years, unanimously reversed, on the law, and the matter remanded for a new trial.

As the People concede, defendant is entitled to a new trial on the ground that there is no evidence that he consented in writing to the substitution of an alternate juror during deliberations (see CPL 270.35 [1]). Concur — Buckley, P.J., Tom, Sullivan and Marlow, JJ.