Ordered that the judgments are reversed, on the law and as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, and a new trial is ordered.
The trial court improperly precluded the defendants from cross-examining the complainant as to the underlying acts of his prior youthful offender adjudication for grand larceny. While the trial court has discretion with respect to the permissible scope of cross-examination of a witness on the basis of prior bad acts, where, as in...
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