The court providently exercised its discretion in denying defendant's request to present expert testimony on eyewitness identification. The threshold inquiry in considering such an application is "deciding whether the case `turns on the accuracy of eyewitness identifications and there is little or no corroborating evidence connecting the defendant to the crime'" (People v Santiago,
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