The court properly refused to deliver a missing witness charge against the People with regard to the complainant, who did not testify. The People provided the court with information indicating that the complainant had resumed her past relationship with defendant, as evidenced by 59 visits to Rikers Island where defendant was being held pending trial, and that she would not cooperate with the prosecution. "The circumstances . . . establish that the victim was, if anything...
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