The court responded meaningfully to a note from the deliberating jury asking the specific question of whether a defendant can be "guilty of robbery if not guilty of larceny in the fourth degree." By responding that the answer was "yes," the court gave a correct answer to the specific question posed by the jury, and it was not required to go beyond that question (see People v Almodovar,
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