The court properly responded to a note from the deliberating jury by defining the crime of coercion and informing the jury that if defendant entered the premises in question with intent to commit that crime, this would satisfy the element of intent to commit a crime under second-degree burglary. The People did not limit their theory of the case to any particular intended crime (compare People v Barnes,
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