An upstate man convicted of murder in a stabbing attack will get a new trial because his 2006 trial judge never made his lawyer aware of the substance of one of two jury notes that requested more information about jury instructions.

An Appellate Division, Fourth Department panel has ruled that then-Monroe County Court Judge Stephen Sirkin “violated the core requirements of CPL 310.30 in failing to advise counsel … of the contents of a substantive jury note, and thereby committed reversible error.”