United States v. Jose Hector Santos Vergara

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• holding that the district court may deny defendant a new trial, without an evidentiary hearing, if it determines that a previously silent accomplice’s postconviction willingness to exculpate his codefendant is not credible
• district court may deny new trial, even without an evidentiary hearing, if it determines that a previously silent accomplice's willingness after conviction to exculpate his convicted co-conspirator is not credible or would not be sufficient to produce a different result

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