People v. Kaleem

—Appeal by the *258defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Lagaña, J.), rendered November 4, 1991, convicting him of murder in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The trial court did not improvidently exercise its discretion by denying the defendant’s motion to adjourn the trial to await the arrival of a prospective witness and to reopen the case to present the testimony of that witness, particularly since the motion was made for the first time after the defense counsel’s closing argument. The decision of…