United States v. Nick Dipaolo and Edward Weather

How courts have described this case

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• “When a motion for a new trial is predicated entirely on an affidavit from a trial witness who recants her testimony, a trial judge can ordinarily deny it without a hearing.”
• “When a motion for a new trial is predicated entirely on an affidavit from a trial witness who recants her testimony, a trial judge can ordinarily deny it without a hearing.”
• “Even if [the witness’s] recantation clearly disputed her trial testimony, its credibility is doubtful because the transcription of the taped interview was never initialed, signed, or sworn to by [the witness].”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).