Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant moved pursuant to CPL 330.30 to set aside the verdict on the ground of newly-discovered evidence, consisting of a written statement from the informant who recanted the information used to obtain a search warrant. However, as newly-discovered evidence must do more than merely impeach or contradict evidence introduced at the trial and recantation evidence is inherently unreliable, the trial court did not err in denying...
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