Bernard Cullen v. United States

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• holding that district court could not overrule magistrate judge's factual finding on this point without conducting its own hearing
• holding that district court could not overrule magistrate judge’s factual finding on this point without conducting its own hearing
• holding that insistence on innocence is relevant, but not dispositive of question of whether petitioner would have accepted plea offer
• holding that simply to review the magistrate judge’s determination “would elevate the recommended ruling of the Magistrate Judge to a final ruling and undermine section 636(b)(l)’s requirement of a de novo determination by the District Court”
• explaining that although a habeas petitioner’s testimony is often self-serving, “it ought not to be rejected solely on this account”
• providing that “a district judge should normally not reject a proposed finding of a magistrate judge that rests on a credibility finding without having the witness testify before the judge”

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