Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, and a new trial is ordered.
The defendant contends that he was deprived of a fair trial as a result of the prosecutor's cross-examination of a correction officer whom the defense called as a witness and who appeared in uniform to testify and identified himself as a correction officer, on the basis that the prosecutor sought to elicit testimony which would demonstrate that he had been incarcerated pending trial. This...
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