At the close of the first day's deliberations by the jury, the court officer directed the jurors to cease their deliberations, after which they retired to a hotel. In view of the fact that the record contained the "cryptic notation" (supra, at 359) that the court officer "delivered to the jury the admonition of the court in standard fashion", without any further elaboration, we held the appeal in abeyance and remanded to the Supreme Court for a reconstruction hearing...
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