What is the test for establishing the credibility of the sole witness in a criminal case?

"New York", United States of America

The following excerpt is from People v. King, 2016 N.Y. Slip Op. 02278, 27 N.Y.3d 147, 31 N.Y.S.3d 402, 50 N.E.3d 869 (N.Y. 2016):

Hearns, 18 A.D.2d at 923, 238 N.Y.S.2d 173 ; McFarland v. Smith, 611 F.2d 414, 419 [2d Cir.1979] [The credibility of the state's witness( ) should depend on an assessment of many pertinent factors, but the state should not be entitled to have its witness's credibility enhanced simply because (the witness is) not (a) member( ) of a group that might be prejudiced against the defendant] ). All the more so where the case turns on the credibility of the sole witness (People v. Robinson, 17 N.Y.3d 868, 870, 933 N.Y.S.2d 192, 957 N.E.2d 761 [2011] ).

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