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PEOPLE v. PITTS

255 A.D.2d 220 (1998)

681 N.Y.S.2d 242

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Leon Pitts, Appellant

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

November 19, 1998

The court properly exercised its discretion in denying defendant's request for a continuance to obtain minutes of an eight-year-old Nassau County misdemeanor plea for use in impeaching a witness where the existence and likelihood of timely production of the minutes and their probative value were speculative at best (see, People v Covington, 233 A.D.2d 169, lv denied 89 N.Y.2d 941).

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