Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law and as matter of discretion in the interest of justice, and a new trial is ordered.
The Supreme Court's instruction to the jury that the People were not required to establish the elements of the crime "beyond all reasonable doubt" was error (see, People v Simon,
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