Opinion
February 23, 1987
Appeal from the County Court, Nassau County (Thorp, J.).
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant contends that the trial court's charge to the jury with regard to the absence of an obligation on the part of an alibi witness to volunteer exculpatory information to law enforcement authorities (see, People v. Dawson, 50 N.Y.2d 311) was erroneous. We do not agree. The charge was almost a verbatim reading of the instruction on this subject contained in People v Dawson (supra), and was entirely proper. Thompson, J.P., Lawrence, Kunzeman and Sullivan, JJ., concur.