Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
At the trial, the defense counsel requested permission to introduce evidence of allegedly false prior statements by the defendant to prove that the defendant's confessions were also false, since the defendant was a "person with a propensity to make grandiose statements about himself". The Supreme Court ruled that this evidence was admissible. However, the Supreme Court also ruled that the People could, in rebuttal, introduce...
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