A hearing solely to determine defendant's or his lawyer's knowledge of the codefendant's recantation would not yield a decisive result. Regardless of whether defendant or his trial lawyer knew of the former codefendant's recantation of statements involving defendant in the instant crime, it was not permissible for the prosecutor to advise the jury in summation that the codefendant had so implicated defendant...
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