Court Opinion

ID: 6044536
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-13 14:11:13.398423+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:51:20.215172
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—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Howard Bell, J.), rendered December 23, 1996, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal contempt in the first degree, and sentencing him to a term of lVs to 4 years, unanimously reversed, on the law, and the matter remanded for a new trial.
As the People correctly concede, a new trial is required because a deliberating juror was replaced with an alternate without defendant’s written consent, in violation of CPL 270.35 (1). Concur—Sullivan, J. P., Tom, Mazzarelli, Wallach and Rubin, JJ.