United States v. Manfredi

OPINION

EDWARD WEINFELD, District Judge.

This is the not unusual situation where a defendant who pled guilty and testified as a government witness recants his trial testimony against a codefendant who was convicted. As is often the case, the recantation occurs only after the statute of limitations on perjury bars any prosecution based upon his trial testimony.

Based upon the recantation, the convicted defendant, Joseph Manfredi, now moves, more than five years after his conviction following a month long trial, “to set aside the verdict” on the ground that the prosecution knowingly used perjured…