Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant's conviction arises from the theft of a handgun which his aunt kept locked in a box in her apartment. On appeal, he contends that the trial court improperly permitted a detective to testify that, following a conversation with the defendant's cousin, he sought out the defendant to place him under arrest. We agree that the court erred in admitting this testimony because it implied that the defendant's cousin, who...
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