The record fails to support defendant's assertion that the court precluded him from impeaching the credibility of a police witness by way of prior bad acts. The court correctly precluded inquiry regarding the existence of a federal lawsuit in which the officer was one of the named defendants, because the mere existence of the lawsuit was not a proper subject for cross-examination (see People v Antonetty,
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