Defendant's alibi evidence was equivocal enough to warrant its rejection by the jury, and it cannot be sustained as a matter of law in this Court. Nor does the treatment of the alibi testimony in the prosecutor's summation warrant reversal. Prior familiarity with the neighborhood where a crime has occurred cannot be equated with a juror's impermissibly "`conscious, contrived experimentation'" (People v Martin,
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