Opinion ID: 2645411
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Defendant’s Motion for New Trial

Text: After receiving Jones’s grand-jury testimony in the new criminal proceedings, Defendant filed a motion in the first case, arguing that he was entitled to a new trial based on newly discovered evidence. Although the motion does not explicitly identify anything as the “new evidence,” its argument section uses the term evidence on three occasions that may indicate what is being referred to. Twice, the “evidence” appears to be the belief of the officers about who the robbers were: (1) “[Defendant] had no evidence that the officers who testified believed that DeJuan Hill was one of the robbers until [the last two weeks],” id. at 133; and (2) “[t]he evidence that the government’s own witness, Mr. Jones, does not believe the government’s theory of the evidence did not even exist 7 until after the trial,” id. On the third occasion it appears to be evidence that someone had left the house before officers created a perimeter: “The new evidence from Mr. Jones is that, in fact, one of the two people who robbed the bank left the House before the House was secured by law enforcement officers,” id. at 134. The motion also may be suggesting a different item of evidence when it argues that the government’s two-robbers theory “completely unravels when the government concedes that a car, containing [a] previously unknown robber, left the house before the police arrived,” id.; but there is no evidence of any car leaving the house before officers arrived.