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PEOPLE v. FREIRE

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department.
Oct 17, 1996
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Defendant's claim that the trial court erred when, after rejecting a partial verdict, it told the jury to resume deliberations without explicitly stating that such should be "upon the entire case" (CPL 310.70 [b] [ii]), is unpreserved for appellate review, since defendant "failed to object when the instruction was given and this error does not fall within the narrow class of error which need not be preserved by timely objection" ( People v Andujar, 228 AD2d 194). In any event, the instruction neither limited the jury's discussions to the charges on which it had not reached a verdict nor precluded the jury from reconsidering the counts upon which it had already agreed ( supra). We perceive no abuse of sentencing discretion.