The court properly exercised its discretion in permitting the prosecutor to reopen direct examination of a witness after cross-examination had commenced, as the result of a witness-initiated conference between the witness and the prosecutor that had occurred during a recess. The court conducted a hearing, outside the presence of the jury, in which it was established that the witness had originally been too frightened to identify defendant but had become willing to do so....
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