Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, and the matter is remitted to the Supreme Court, Kings County, for further proceedings pursuant to CPL 460.50 (5).
The trial court's charge on the definition of reasonable doubt was complete and accurate. It was not error for the court to instruct the jury that a doubt, to be a reasonable one, should be one which a reasonable person acting in a matter of this importance would be likely to entertain (see, People v Rivera...
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