Unanimously reversed, on the law, and as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, the sentences vacated, and a new trial directed on the counts charging those crimes.
The failure of the trial court to inform counsel, prior to summation, that it intended to consider the crime of manslaughter in the first degree (which it did consider), was reversible error. (People v Moody,
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