Judgment affirmed. In its charge to the jury, the trial court, in discussing the burden of proof, used the phrase "proof to a moral certainty". Later in the charge, the trial court advised the jury that any request for a rereading of testimony should be "your last resort." Although both of these instructions constituted error (see People v Forest,
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