Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law and as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, and a new trial is ordered.
We find that the defendant was deprived of his right to a fair trial by virtue of numerous instances of prosecutorial misconduct which occurred throughout the course of the trial. The most serious incident of misconduct occurred when the prosecutor persistently elicited testimony which the court had previously suppressed as hearsay...
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