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PEOPLE v. MILANO

59 A.D.2d 852 (1977)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Peter Milano, Appellant

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

November 10, 1977

Unanimously reversed, on the law, and a new trial directed.

In our opinion the defendant was denied a fair trial by the prosecutor's improper cross-examination of an alibi witness and, in particular, by his persistent improper efforts to discredit such witness, the clear purport of which was to implant in the jurors' minds the proposition that the witness was unworthy of belief because he had failed to promptly divulge the...

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