Judgment affirmed (CPL 470.05, subd. 1). In this case we deplore the comments, made by the prosecutor in summation, that he would not countenance false testimony by a People's witness.
In effect, he was skirting the borderline of the cases interdicting the practice of a prosecutor making himself an unsworn witness and supporting his case by his own veracity and position. We also look with disfavor upon an attempt to prove another crime, which the Trial Judge excluded...
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