People v. McGhee

*1265In 2006 the defendant was charged with murder in the second degree and manslaughter in the first degree in connection with the August 2001 beating death of Edgar Garzón in Jackson Heights, Queens. At trial in 2008, the defendant was identified as Garzón’s assailant by one witness, who was 14 years old at the time of the crime, and who, it was undisputed, knew the defendant very well. The defendant sought to impeach that identifying witness with the testimony of the witness’s father as to his son’s “exceedingly bad” reputation in the community for truth and veracity. The Supreme Court…