Opinion
June 9, 1997
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Kings County (Vaughan, J.).
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The court's response to the deliberating jury's request as to what constituted an "illegal confession" was "meaningful" and adequate without the additional language the defendant sought to have charged (People v. Steinberg, 79 N.Y.2d 673, 684-685; see, People v. Malloy, 55 N.Y.2d 296, 302, cert denied 459 U.S. 847; People v. Bowen, 134 A.D.2d 356; see also, CPL 310.30).
The sentence was not excessive (see, People v. Suitte, 90 A.D.2d 80).
Miller, J.P., Joy, Goldstein and Florio, JJ., concur.