The court appropriately exercised its discretion in denying defendant's motion for a mistrial based upon a prosecution witness's revelation that the buyer to whom defendant had allegedly sold drugs had pleaded guilty to possession of drugs, as part of the explanation as to why the drugs had inadvertently been destroyed prior to trial, a fact of little significance in the context of the issues raised at trial. The court's curative instruction striking the testimony from the...
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