Judgment reversed, on the law and in the interests of justice, and new trial ordered. The findings of fact below are affirmed.
Though the evidence arrayed against defendant was conflicting and presented a very close question concerning his guilt, we would affirm the judgment were it not that we are constrained to reverse it because of prosecutorial misconduct. At the beginning of the People's summation, the prosecutor stated that he had courteously remained silent...
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