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IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT

________________________ No. 17

- 12967 Non

- Argument Calendar

________________________ D.C. Docket No. 1:13

- cr - 20298

- JEM

- 1

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff

- Appellee,

versus DORA MOREIRA, Defendant

- Appellant.

___________________ _____ Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida

________________________ ( April 12, 2018 ) Before WILLIAM PRYOR, ANDERSON and DUBINA , Circuit Judges. PER CURIAM:

Case: 17-12967 Date Filed: 04/12/2018 Page: 1 of 52 This is the second time we have considered an appeal in this case. I n the first appeal, we affirmed Dora Moreira’s (“Moreira”) convictions and total
sentence for various Medicare fraud violations

. United States v. Moreira , 605 F. App’x 852 (11th Cir. 2015), cert. denied, 1 3 6 S. Ct. 1155 (2016). In this appeal, Moreira, a prisoner proceeding pro se , appeals the district court’s order denying her motion for a new trial filed pursuant to Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 33 . On appeal, Moreira argues that, although her Rule 33 motion was untimely, the district court abused its discretion in denying the motion because she presented sufficient grounds for the court to find excusable neglect , and she established that newly discovered evidence was material and would have likely changed the outcome of h er trial

. I. We review the denial of a motion for a new trial based on newly discovered evidence for an abuse of discretion. United States v. Vallejo , 297 F.3d 1154, 1163 (11th Cir. 2002). The abuse of discretion standard is deferential and decisions o f the district court will be affirmed unless “the district court has made a clear error of judgment , or has applied the wrong legal standard.” United States v. Lyons , 403 F.3d 1248, 1255 (11th Cir. 2005). We construe pro se filings liberally, Tannenbaum v . United States, 148 F.3d 1262, 1263 (11th Cir. 1998), but pro se

Case: 17-12967 Date Filed: 04/12/2018 Page: 2 of 53 litigants must still conform to procedural rules, Loren v. Sasser , 309 F.3d 1296, 1304 (11th Cir. 2002). II. Pursuant to the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, a defendant may move the court to vacate a judgment and grant a new trial “if the interest of justice so requires.” Fed. R. Crim. P. 33(a). “Any motion for a new trial grounded on newly discovered evid ence must be filed within [three] years after the verdict or finding of guilty. If an appeal is pending, the court may not grant a motion for a new trial until the appellate court remands the case.” Fed. R. Crim. P. 33(b)(1). Moreover, a district court may extend the time for a defendant to file an otherwise untimely motion if she can show excusable neglect. Fed. R. Crim. P. 45(b)(1)(B). A new trial based on newly discovered evidence is warranted only if: “ (1) the evidence was in fact discovered after trial; (2) the defendant exercised due care to discover the evidence; (3) the evidence was not merely cumulative or impeaching; (4) the evidence was material; and (5) the evidence was of such a nature that a new trial would probably produ ce a different result. ” United States v.
Lee , 68 F.3d 1267, 1273 (11th Cir. 1995). “Failure to meet any one of these elements will defeat a motion for a new trial.” United States v. Starrett , 55 F.3d 1525, 1554 (11th Cir. 1995). Our court highly disfav or s motions for new trials based on newly discovered evidence and ha s opined that they should be granted

Case: 17-12967 Date Filed: 04/12/2018 Page: 3 of 54 only with great caution. United States v. Campa , 459 F.3d 1121, 1151 (11th Cir. 2006) ( en banc ). Self

- serving allegations that are unsubstantiated by any objectively credible source and that present only second

- hand information do not warrant a new trial. United States v. Calderon , 127 F.3d 1314, 1354

- 55 (11th Cir. 1997). Issues implicating the fairness of a trial or the integrity of the verdict may be grounds for a new trial. Campa , 459 F.3d at 1151 n.268.

III. E ven assuming that Moreira’s delay in filing her motion for a new trial was due to excusable neglect, the motion itself fail s on its merits

. Moreira ’s reliance on alleged government misconduct in an unrelated case does not establish such misconduct in her case. Moreira cannot show that the alleged misappropriated Medicare documents from an unrelated case could not have been discovered before trial if she or her attorney had exercised due care in discovering them. The only evidence that she has put forward to support her argument

— that the government introduced a binder full of documents on the first day of trial that she and her attorney previously ha d not seen

— does not warrant the grant of a new trial

. The government disputes Moreira’s assertion that her counsel had not seen the documents before the introduction of the binder, noting that her counsel did not object to their admission into evidence. Accordingly, we conclude from the record

Case: 17-12967 Date Filed: 04/12/2018 Page: 4 of 55 that t he district court did not abuse its discretion in denying Moreira’s motion for a new trial , and we affirm its order

. Vallejo , 297 F.3d at 1163; Lyons , 403 F.3d at 1255. AFFIRMED.

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