Opinion ID: 714140
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Heading: Post-Trial Events and Figueroa's Motion for A New Trial.

Text: 14 In May 1991, in a subsequent unrelated trial, United States v. Reyes, 90 Cr. 715 (S.D.N.Y.), Teixeira was confronted on cross-examination with the testimony he had given in Figueroa regarding his taxes. Teixeira asserted that he paid his 1988 taxes in March 1990, and that it was possible, yes sir, that he had made up his testimony in the Figueroa trial that he had already (in May 1989) filed his federal tax return for 1988. 15 In April 1990, Teixeira testified in United States v. Villada-Arango, 89 Cr. 886 (S.D.N.Y.), that he had just filed his 1988 tax return last Friday or Saturday. Whether or not Teixeira ever did get around to filing his 1988 return, he had not filed it at the time he testified in Villada-Arango. Teixeira was later indicted for that perjury, to which he pleaded guilty on February 13, 1992. (No perjury charges were lodged in connection with Teixeira's testimony in Figueroa.) In a letter dated May 21, 1992, the government advised Figueroa's counsel of Teixeira's plea. The government further advised that Teixeira had given similar false testimony in the Reyes trial, which also post-dated the Figueroa trial, and that Teixeira had also failed to file tax returns for the years 1980 and 1982. For the first time, the government furnished defense counsel in Figueroa with a list of trials in which Teixeira had testified, two of which occurred prior to Figueroa's trial (United States v. Restrepo, 88 Cr. 301 (S.D.N.Y.), and United States v. Salcedo, 88 Cr. 521 (S.D.N.Y.)). In both the Restrepo and Salcedo trials, Teixeira testified that he had not filed a 1987 income tax return. 3 Despite the district court's pre-trial order that the government divulge any Brady material to the defense, Teixeira's testimony in those trials was not furnished to Figueroa prior to trial. On May 29, 1992, Figueroa moved for a new trial based on that newly discovered evidence. On March 29, 1995, the district court denied that motion. 16