The fact that prosecutors failed for five months to tell the defense that a drug dealer, who testified in a murder case, had sold angel dust to an undercover officer the evening before telling a jury he had turned his life around and stopped selling drugs was not grounds for overturning a verdict, the Appellate Division, First Department, ruled Tuesday.
Ruling in People v. Stilley, 4863/06, the panel said that “even if the information about Andres Santana’s recent drug sales had been disclosed before the end of trial, there is no reasonable possibility that the verdict would have been different.”
