Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant's motion pursuant to CPL 330.30 to vacate the judgment was properly denied. It is well settled that "[t]here is no form of proof so unreliable as recanting testimony" (People v Shilitano, 218 N.Y. 161, 170). Under the circumstances of this case, where the defendant made a statement which positively identified him as the individual who relieved the complainant of his jewelry at gunpoint, the complainant's...
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