Judgment unanimously affirmed.
Memorandum:
Supreme Court erred in denying the motion of defendant to redact portions of his admission to a police officer regarding uncharged drug-related crimes. Those portions of the admission concerning prior uncharged crimes were inadmissible because they did not "help establish some element of the crime under consideration", nor were they otherwise "relevant because of some recognized exception to the general rule" (
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