Bellacosa, J. (dissenting). The majority, in affirming this conviction, adopts the Appellate Division’s central premise that the trial court’s complete failure of compliance with the conceded obligation to respond to a note from the deliberating jury was not prejudicial and did not affect the ultimate verdict (140 AD2d, at 354). Because we believe it is entirely speculative to find lack of prejudice and lack of causal effect in t…
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