"A memory can do many things with the passage of time; improving is not one of them," Justice Richard Lee Price wrote in refusing to vacate a conviction based on the "absurd" recantation of a crucial witness.
June 19, 2014 at 12:00 AM
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A crucial murder case witness who said she lied at trial two decades ago and recently recanted her testimony has failed to persuade a Bronx judge to vacate the conviction.
Supreme Court Justice Richard Lee Price (See Profile) suggested that the witness, who said she lied in 1993, was actually telling the truth then, and that her 2013 recantation is “absurd.”
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