Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant was charged with and convicted of the robbery of a jewelry store in downtown Yonkers on May 6, 1987. One day during the trial, before proceedings for that day commenced, the defendant's girlfriend introduced a woman to defense counsel. According to defense counsel, the woman told him that her brother Michael DeCosta had been a jewelry store robber and that he was not in jail at the time of the instant robbery. The...
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