Case Name: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Renia Allison, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1986-04-04
Citations: 119 A.D.2d 1005
Docket Number: Appeal No. 1
Parties: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Renia Allison, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 119
Pages: 1005–1005

Head Matter:
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Renia Allison, Appellant.
(Appeal No. 1.)

Opinion:
— Judgment unanimously affirmed. Memorandum: We find no evidence in the trial record which tends to establish that the prosecutor knowingly used what defendant describes as "perjured testimony" of George Eckles, an accomplice of defendant, that no promise of a reduced plea had been offered in exchange for his testimony. In addition, defendant's CPL 440.30 motion to vacate the judgment, based on the same claim, and grounded on the affidavit of Eckles, who sought to recant his trial testimony, was properly denied without a hearing since "[tjhere is no form of proof so unreliable as recanting testimony" (People v Shilitano, 218 NY 161, 170; see also, People v Donald, 107 AD2d 818, 819; People v Dukes, 106 AD2d 906, 907). Defendant's remaining claims of improper bolstering, restrictions on Eckles' cross-examination and vouching by the prosecutor for Eckles' veracity on summation have been examined and found to be without merit. (Appeal from judgment of Monroe County Court, Barr, J. — robbery, second degree.) Present — Denman, J. P., Boomer, Green, O'Donnell and Schnepp, JJ.