United States v. Quentin Ira Lincoln

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• \Corresponding to the district court's broad discretion [over motions for new trial] is the limited scope of our review: we will reverse the district court's ruling on the motion for new trial only if we find that ruling to be a clear and manifest abuse of discretion.\
• a new trial should be granted only where the evidence preponderates sufficiently heavily against the verdict that a serious miscarriage of justice occurred
• stating the issues in a motion for a new trial are “far different from those raised by a motion for judgment of acquittal[,]” as the question before the court is not whether a “defendant should be acquitted outright, but only whether he should have a new trial”
• where “the evidence preponderates sufficiently heavily against the verdict that a serious miscarriage of justice may have occurred”
• “This authority should be exercised sparingly and with caution; nevertheless, the trial court has wide discretion in deciding whether to grant a new trial in the interest of justice.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).