People v. Givens

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Aiello, J.), rendered February 2, 1983, convicting him of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree and assault in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

Cross-examination of a witness with exculpatory information as to his or her prior silence is generally permissible when done in good faith because of the "natural impulse of a person possessing exculpatory information * * * to come forward at the earliest possible moment in order to forestall…