Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant claims that he was deprived of his right to effective assistance of counsel because his counsel called his wife as a witness despite knowing that she had made a statement to the prosecutor which was inconsistent with her expected trial testimony. We disagree. Counsel did not present the wife to establish an alibi, the subject to which her prior inconsistent statement directly related, but for another purpose entirely...
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