United States v. J.D. Ashworth, A/K/A James Daniel Ashworth (86-6235) and Scott Ashworth, A/K/A Samuel Scott Ashworth (86-6236)

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• holding appellate court “limited to examining the evidence produced at trial to determine whether the district court’s determination that the evidence does not ‘preponderate heavily against the verdict’ is a clear and manifest abuse of discretion”
• articulating \the appropriate standard for district courts to follow\ in evaluating Rule 33 motions and highlighting that \[t]he court of appeals ... does not sit as a 'thirteenth juror' to judge the credibility of witnesses[ or] reweigh the evidence\ (emphases omitted)

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