MEMORANDUM.
The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.
Following the completion of the summations, defendant's counsel requested the trial court to reopen the trial to permit defendant to introduce recantation testimony from one of the People's witnesses. Such an application is addressed to the discretion of the Trial Judge. In the circumstances here, and particularly in the light of the evident pique of the witness because the prosecutor insisted...
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