The court properly exercised its discretion in receiving police testimony that the victim named defendant as his assailant immediately after the crime. These prior consistent statements were admissible to rebut a claim of recent fabrication. A major component of defendant's trial strategy was to attack the victim's credibility by arguing that he was motivated to testify falsely by a cooperation agreement, entered into more than a year after the shooting, which required him...
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