People v. Ramlall

The Supreme Court did not improvidently exercise its discretion in denying the defendant’s request for an adjournment in order to seek the medical opinion of an expert witness. The defendant failed to show that the witness’s anticipated testimony would be favorable to him and not merely speculative, and that he exercised good faith and diligence in attempting to secure the witness’s presence at trial (see People v DeCampoamor, 91 AD3d 669, 671 [2012]; People v Nunez, 199 AD2d 285 [1993]).

The defendant’s challenges to the alleged instances of prosecutorial misconduct in the opening statement…