United States v. Gordon Walgren

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• concluding that valid reasons for not attacking conviction earlier existed where claim was based on recent and fully retroactive change in law
• holding that a decision deemed to have retroactive application generally also has such retroactive application in a coram nobis proceeding
• noting that the petitioner must demonstrate each of the four coram nobis factors
• finding fundamental error where Walgren’s mail fraud conviction rested upon a commission of fraud that was not criminal
• to support motion for new trial movant must show that newly-discovered evidence \will probably produce an acquittal\
• to support motion for new trial movant must show that newly-discovered evidence “will probably produce an acquittal”

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