People v. Wade

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Tomei, J.), rendered November 6, 1995, convicting him of murder in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

The trial court did not improvidently exercise its discretion by limiting the defendant’s examination of one of his witnesses. Even though a defendant has a right to introduce evidence that a person other than himself committed the crime (see, Chambers v Mississippi, 410 US 284 ), the evidence must do more than raise a mere suspicion that another person committed the crime. In this case, the defendant failed to show a clear link between the third party and the crime (see, People v Felder, 231 AD2d 589 ; People v Rodriguez, 220 AD2d 699 ; People v Austin, 112 AD2d 242 ; People v Aulet, 111 AD2d 822 ; see also, Greenfield v People, 85 NY 75 , 90). Bracken, J. P., Thompson, Krausman and Luciano, JJ., concur.