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

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Priscilla James, Appellant.
    [756 NYS2d 749]
   Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Joan Sudolnik, J.), rendered October 30, 2000, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of assault in the first degree, and sentencing her, as a second violent felony offender, to a term of 15 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s challenge to the court’s supplementary charge given in response to a note from the deliberating jury claiming an inability to reach a unanimous verdict is unpreserved and we decline to review it in the interest of justice. Were we to review this claim, we would find that the supplementary charge as a whole conveyed the proper principles, was sufficiently balanced, and was not coercive (see People v Ford, 78 NY2d 878 [1991]; People v Pagan, 45 NY2d 725 [1978]).

The record establishes that defendant’s predicate conviction was for a violent felony (see Penal Law § 70.02 [1] [c]; § 265.02 [4]) and contradicts her claim that she was improperly sentenced as a second violent felony offender. Concur — Tom, J.P., Mazzarelli, Ellerin, Lerner and Marlow, JJ.