In People v. Bacic (202 AD2d 234, lv denied 83 NY2d 1002), defendant appealed a trial court's decision to permit jurors to submit written questions so the court could determine whether such questions should be posed to a trial witness. The Appellate Division, First Department held that it was "within the trial court's discretion to permit jurors to submit written questions of a witness, striking those it deemed improper and posing the rest to the witness" ( Bacic, 202 AD2d at 235).