The court properly declined to provide a missing witness charge with respect to a police witness who testified at defendant's first trial, which ended in a mistrial, but who was not called by the People at the retrial. This officer's testimony at the first trial was completely favorable to the prosecution and plainly cumulative to other testimony, and there is nothing to indicate that her testimony would have been different at the second trial. Accordingly, there was no basis...
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