Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, and a new trial is ordered.
The record indicates that the trial court did not undertake a "sufficiently `searching inquiry'" of the defendant prior to allowing him to waive his right to counsel and proceed pro se (see, People v Sawyer,
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