People v. Johnson

OPINIÓN OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.

None of the errors urged by defendant warrants reversal of his conviction. It was not an abuse of discretion by the trial court to exclude testimony offered by defendant to establish possible motive on the part of a prosecution *934witness and her boyfriend to have committed the crime with which defendant was charged. Because this evidence related to collateral issues and the times of the events sought to be established by the testimony were not specified, its admission was committed to the sound discretion of…