Although the court should have employed the standard charge (see CJI2d[NY] Presumption of Innocence, Burden of Proof, Reasonable Doubt), the court's charge, read as a whole, did not shift or misstate the burden of proof or expressly impose an affirmative obligation upon jurors to articulate a basis for harboring a reasonable doubt (see People v Antommarchi,
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