The court properly denied defendant's mistrial motion based on a police officer's fleeting reference to defendant's "rap sheet" since "[a]ny prejudice to the defendant which might have arisen due to the brief mention of uncharged criminal activity which was made at defendant's trial was alleviated when the court sustained defendant's objections and took prompt curative action" (People v Santiago,
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