Robert S. Dean, Center for Appellate Litigation, New York (Abigail Everett of counsel), for appellant.

Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., District Attorney, New York (Catherine Marotta of counsel), for respondent.

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Ruth Pickholz, J.), rendered November 19, 2019, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of assault in the second degree, and sentencing him to a term of five years, unanimously reversed, on the law, and the matter remanded for a new trial.

The trial court's failure to read to the parties the entirety of a note submitted just before the jury reached a verdict deprived counsel of meaningful notice (see CPL 310.30; People v Walston, 23 NY3d 986, 989-990 [2014]). The note was not shown to counsel, and the court's paraphrase omitted significant aspects of the jury's requests, including a request for reinstruction on the count charging second-degree assault, which was the only count on which defendant was found guilty. The fact that the jury announced that it had reached a verdict before the note was read did not cure this mode of proceedings error (see People v Parker, 32 NY3d 49, 61 n 5 [2018]). Concur—Kern, J.P., Mazzarelli, Friedman, Shulman, Rodriguez, JJ.