People v. Mateo

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.

In this prosecution for assault, possession of a controlled substance and possession of a weapon, the prosecution’s key witness — defendant’s former girlfriend — on both direct and cross-examination denied ever having used cocaine and denied ever having permitted defendant to bring drugs into her apartment. After she left the stand, however, the prosecutor and defense counsel received medical records showing that she told hospital personnel that she had used cocaine. The court denied defendant’s motion for a…