The court properly denied defendant's request for a mistrial, since it cured any prejudice by immediately striking from the record the inadvertent elicitation by the People of defendant's possession of a crack pipe, contrary to the court's in limine ruling, and by issuing a contemporaneous curative instruction to the jury, which the jury is presumed to have followed (see, People v Young,
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