Opinion ID: 790692
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: The Grounds for Seeking a New Trial

Text: 29 On October 28, 2002, Canova moved for a new trial pursuant to Fed.R.Crim.P. 33, on the ground that the government's evidence, particularly as to his guilty knowledge, was flawed, contradictory, and in some respects false. 30 Canova argued that Vincent's testimony about Canova's returning the March 7, 2000 telefax transmission with certain test dates blacked out was belied by trial evidence, specifically, the fact that the cover sheet for the telefax had not been found in Vincent's Connecticut office, and the condition of the telefax found in Canova's New York files suggested that the dates had been blacked out before Canova received the document. Further, Canova reported that post-trial investigation into the operation of his telefax machine and telephone numbers demonstrated the falsity of Vincent's account. Canova submitted that the telefax legend at the bottom of the document found in his file was properly understood to indicate its receipt, not re-transmission. He submitted that the one-hour difference between the legends at the top and bottom of the retrieved document could be explained by the discovery of a comparable time discrepancy in the internal clocks of Canova's and Vincent's telefax machines. 31 Canova further argued that the prosecution had unfairly insinuated that he had lied on cross-examination in explaining that the deletion of certain information from a pacemaker test report found in his files was done to permit the document to be used for marketing purposes. 9 He offered a post-trial affidavit from Raytel's Marketing Manager, indicating that such redactions were consistent with her department's practices. 32 Canova also argued that the March 23, 2000 Donovan Memorandum did not support the government's suggestion that Raytel's New York technicians were not complying with 30-30-30 test requirements. He offered a post-trial affidavit from Michael Donovan stating that his memorandum was intended to remedy a different problem: the tendency of technicians to run both the demand and the demand after strips in the demand screens of their computers. Donovan Aff. ¶ 4 (Oct. 17, 2002). Donovan explained that in January 1999, he had instructed technicians that they needed to show the demand-after-magnet test in the demand-after magnet screen. Id. ¶ 5. His March 23, 2000 memo was intended to communicate the need to record the entire demand-after-magnet test in the demand-after-magnet screen, and to highlight the impropriety of recording part of the test on that screen and part on the demand screen. Id. ¶¶ 5-6. 33