United States v. Montilla-Rivera

How courts have described this case

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• noting that a convict who comes forward to exonerate a codefendant only after his conviction and sentence have become final often has little to lose and, perhaps, something to gain
• noting that a convict who comes forward to exonerate a codefendant only after his conviction and sentence have become final often has little to lose and, perhaps, something to gain
• “Criminal conspirators do not often ‘welcome innocent nonparticipants as witnesses to their crimes.’ ”
• post-trial affidavits of witnesses who invoked their Fifth Amendment privilege not to testify at trial constitute newly discovered evidence
• \Criminal conspirators do not often 'welcome innocent nonparticipants as witnesses to their crimes.' \
• “[W]e share the general skepticism concerning [such] statements, and the present opinion by no means confers any automatic right in such a case to a new trial or even to a hearing.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).