Court of Appeals of New York

Conviction for bribing three teenage witnesses to recant their identifications in a murder trial is affirmed where evidence that the witnesses abandoned their recantations after the murder of another witness was not more prejudicial than probative. The court concluded that the evidence of the murder was relevant to the credibility of the teenage witnesses and that the trial court's limiting instruction and prosecutor's statements that defendant was not involved in the murder minimized prejudice.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/15/2015
• Published 10/15/2015

Judges

• PIGOTT

Court

• Court of Appeals of New York

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