Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, and a new trial is ordered.
As the People correctly concede on appeal, it was error for the trial court to admit evidence of the defendant's two previous convictions arising from the sale of cocaine in 1988 and 1989. Such evidence did not refute the defendant's claim that
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