Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
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 U.S. 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 A.D.2d 589; People v. Rodriguez, 220 A.D.2d 699; People v. Austin, 112 A.D.2d 242; People v. Aulet, 111 A.D.2d 822; see also, Greenfield v. People, 85 N.Y. 75, 90).
Bracken, J. P., Thompson, Krausman and Luciano, JJ., concur.