Government of the Virgin Islands v. Jose Lima, Sr.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a motion for a new trial is addressed to the trial judge’s discretion, and the scope of appellate review is whether such discretion was abused
• deferring to the district court’s finding, on the affidavits, that new evidence would not have undermined the credibility of the government’s witness
• “Tt would, of course, have been simple to convene a hearing and bring Molina in to testify. We think that would have been the better course for the district court to have followed.”
• ”The Lawson test has not been adopted by this Court.
• “The Larrison test has not been adopted by this Court.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).