Sotomayor v. Vasquez

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing trial 12 court is free to reject defendant’s self-serving testimony based on defendant’s previous contradictory testimony in making its credibility determinations at a motion for new trial hearing
• stating that the significant difference between period of incarceration included in State’s plea offer and defendant’s sentencing exposure at trial could support an inference that the defendant would have accepted the plea offer
• \Arguments and representations made in court briefs ... do not constitute record evidence to support a finding of fact.\
• “Arguments . . . made in court briefs, however, do not constitute record evidence to support a finding of fact.”
• “Arguments and representations made in court briefs . . . do not constitute record evidence to support a finding of fact.”
• “Arguments and representations made in court briefs . . . do not constitute record evidence to support a finding of fact.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).