Ordered that the judgment is reversed, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, and a new trial is ordered. The facts have been considered and are determined to have been established.
Just prior to being sequestered after its first afternoon of deliberations, the jury requested that the court's instructions concerning murder in the second degree and the lesser included offense of manslaughter in the first degree be read back to them. The court informed...
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