Judgment reversed, on the law and as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, and new trial ordered.
We reverse the judgment of conviction based on the trial court's defective charge on the presumption of innocence as well as its failure to charge the jury that every element of the crimes with which the defendant had been charged were required to be established beyond a reasonable doubt (see, People v Roldos,
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