Unanimously reversed, on the law, and a new trial directed.
Among a number of reasons warranting reversal, we find that the trial prosecutor improperly delved into two prior arrests (both cases having been dismissed) and suggested thereby that defendant was a seller in the housing project in which he lived. The prosecutor's cross-examination and summation was intended solely to portray defendant as a narcotics pusher rather than to impeach his credibility (People...
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