Sentence reversed, on the law, and case remanded to the Criminal Term for resentence in accordance with the views herein set forth.
CPL 380.50 requires that the court not only make a statement at the time of sentence, but that the court ask the defendant whether he wishes to make a statement. This must be done (People v. Gilliam,
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