Ordered that the judgment is reversed, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, and a new trial is ordered.
As part of the responsibility of insuring a fair trial, a Trial Judge may seize the affirmative, when proper and necessary, to clarify perplexing issues, and even to develop significant factual information, so as to enforce propriety, orderliness, decorum, and expedition at trial (see, People v De Jesus,
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