Pursuant to CPL 330.30 (1), applicable here, the trial court may set aside or modify a guilty verdict before sentence, only upon a ground "`appearing in the record which, if raised upon an appeal from a prospective judgment of conviction, would require a reversal or modification of the judgment as a matter of law by an appellate court'" (People v Carter,
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