Judgment reversed, on the law and as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, and new trial ordered.
On the record before us, we are compelled to conclude that defense counsel's performance was so woefully inadequate that defendant was deprived of the "meaningful representation" of counsel to which he is constitutionally entitled (People v Baldi,
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