United States v. Raymond Derrick Baker

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• holding affidavit from inmate who overheard witness contradicting testimony would only impeach
• affirming a denial of an evidentiary hearing and relying, in part, on the fact that motion judge had been trial judge
• finding no abuse of discretion in the denial of an evidentiary hearing where a witness recanted between trial and sentencing, but the witness’s trial testimony was relatively unimportant to the defendant’s conviction
• finding no abuse of discretion in the denial of an evidentiary hearing where a witness recanted between trial and sentencing, but the witness’s trial testimony was relatively unimportant to the defendant’s conviction
• reciting, “the newly discovered evidence must be [among other things] such that its emergence probably will result in an acquittal upon retrial. . . . [N]ewly discovered evidence must be more than merely . . . impeaching.” (citations and quotations omitted)
• generally indicating newly discovered evidence offered merely to impeach a witness’s testimony is insufficient to warrant a new trial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).