Opinion
July 13, 1998
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Kings County (Martin, J.).
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
Contrary to the defendant's contention, the trial court did not improvidently exercise its discretion by declining to instruct the jury that counsel for both sides had the right to prepare their respective witnesses to testify at trial. Attacking the credibility of witnesses by exploring the extent to which opposing counsel has gone to prepare them to testify is not improper per se ( see, People v. Galloway, 54 N.Y.2d 396, 399). Here, upon consideration of the questions of the prosecutor in the context of the record as a whole, we cannot say that the trial court improvidently exercised its discretion by failing to give the requested charge.
Bracken, J. P., Pizzuto, Altman and Luciano, concur.