A Brooklyn-based appellate court revived a guilty verdict that had been set aside by a trial judge due to a court officer’s commentary on the evidence to a deliberating juror.
At the close of a day’s deliberations in a 2014 Queens narcotics case, a court officer escorted three jurors to an elevator bank. The officer commented to one juror about the evidence and logical inference of the defendant’s guilt.
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