Defendant's main point on this appeal is that he was denied a fair trial when it appeared that the arresting officer's memorandum book pertaining to the period of defendant's arrest was inadvertently lost, together with the "negligent" loss of a copy of the pertinent memo book entry by the presentment agency. As a result, defendant urges total preclusion of the officer's testimony, a drastic remedy which, since the officer was the sole witness to the crime, would necessitate...
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