Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, with costs.
We find that the trial court properly precluded the plaintiff's decedent, who was alive at the time of the trial, from bolstering her trial testimony by use of her prior consistent statements. It is well settled that an impeached witness cannot be rehabilitated by a prior consistent statement unless the cross-examiner has created the inference of, or directly characterized, the witness's testimony as a recent fabrication...
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