Opinion ID: 770533
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Heading: Motion to Correct the Record

Text: 28 Hernandez also appeals the district court's denial of his motion to correct the record pursuant to Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 10(e). When a district court settles a dispute about what occurred in proceedings before it, the court's determination is conclusive unless intentionally false or plainly unreasonable, see United States v. Zichettello, 208 F.3d 72, 93 (2nd Cir. 2000); United States v. Garcia, 997 F.2d 1273, 1278 (9th Cir. 1993); United States v. Serrano, 870 F.2d 1, 12 (1st Cir. 1989); United States v. Mori, 444 F.2d 240, 246 (5th Cir. 1971), this because [u]ltimately the [District] Court has direct knowledge of what the parties [stated in the] case and of what the Court's own general procedures are. United States v. Barrow, 118 F.3d 482, 487-488 (6th Cir. 1997). In denying Hernandez's Rule 10(e) motion, the district court agreed with the arguments put forth by the government in its response to the motion. The government asserted that the alleged offensive comment did not appear in the trial transcript; that counsel for Hernandez failed to support any contention that the statement might have been left out of the transcript with citation to the appropriate transcript section where the comment might have occurred; that Hernandez's appellate counsel's affidavit as to what his trial counsel said that the government attorney said was hearsay and thus incompetent evidence of prosecutorial misconduct; and that, since the alleged comment was not recorded in the trial transcript, if it occurred it may have happened outside the jury's earshot, and so did not serve to prejudice Hernandez. For these reasons and, because the same judge both presided over the trial and denied the Rule 10(e) motion, we conclude that the decision to deny the motion was not so plainly unreasonable as to require reversal. 5