Opinion
December 27, 1993
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Kings County (Rappaport, J.).
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
Contrary to the defendant's contention, we find that the court's submission of the verdict sheet to the jury was not error. The instructions submitted to the jury on the verdict sheet, along with the offenses to be considered and the possible verdicts, were entirely neutral, and did not contain parenthetical references to the facts, portions of the oral charge, or any elements of the crimes charged (see, People v Owens, 69 N.Y.2d 585, 589; People v McCray, 182 A.D.2d 838, 839; cf., People v Sotomayer, 79 N.Y.2d 1029, 1030). There was no risk that the deliberative process or the "ultimate guilt determination" by the jury was in any way affected by the verdict sheet (People v Sotomayer, supra, at 1030; see, People v Taylor, 76 N.Y.2d 873). Thompson, J.P., Balletta, O'Brien and Santucci, JJ., concur.