PER CURIAM.
By his own admission, and in the judgment of five judges of the court of appeal, the actions of the trial judge in communicating with the jury were improper and so tainted the verdict of the jury as to render it unreliable. Where a jury verdict is "tainted" due to a material error at trial but an otherwise complete trial record exists, the general rule is that an appellate court should, if it can, render judgment on the record. Gonzales v. Xerox,
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