This is a motion to restrain and enjoin the District Attorney from cross-examining or interrogating defendant concerning his prior record. CPL 60.40 (subd. 1) provides: "1. If, in the course of a criminal proceeding, any witness, including a defendant, is properly asked whether he was previously convicted of a specified offense and answers in the negative or in an equivocal manner, the party adverse to the one who called him may...
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