People v. Valerio-Lacen

How courts have described this case

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• stating that “[i]f the court finds that the recantation is false, it need not order a new trial” and remanding the case for the district court to make a credibility finding, which it had not
• when suggestion of juror bias is not frivolous, the court should make “an adequate inquiry” into whether the bias existed and whether it was prejudicial
• where the witness himself files an affidavit averring that his trial testimony was false, the trial court must at least decide if the recantation is to be believed
• where the witness himself files an affidavit averring that his trial testimony was false, the trial court must at least decide if the recantation is to be believed
• adopting Berry test and setting forth its five requirements
• “recanted testimony is properly viewed with suspicion.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).