The order of the Appellate Division should be reversed, and the judgment of Supreme Court, Queens County, reinstated.
We recently held that it is within the scope of a court officer's "administerial duties" (CPL 310.10) to tell deliberating jurors, at the court's direction, that they should stop deliberating because they were going to be taken to dinner and sequestered for the evening (People v Bonaparte...
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