Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, and a new trial is ordered. No questions of fact have been raised or considered.
The trial court committed reversible error when, over the specific objection of defense counsel, it submitted a "verdict sheet" to the jury which contained factual parentheticals linking counts in the indictment to relevant exhibits. As the Court of Appeals has recently held in People v Sotomayer (
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