Sentence reversed, on the law, and case remanded to the Criminal Term for resentencing in accordance with the views herein set forth.
CPL 380.50 provides that the court, at sentencing, must ask the defendant whether he wishes to make a statement. This provision is mandatory (People v. Brown,
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