Court Opinion

ID: 9724380
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 10:54:35.085258+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:24:59.179628
License: Public Domain

LEVINE, Justice,
specially concurring.
I join the majority decision except for its dicta on the probability of acquittal. I agree that the trial court was not arbitrary, unreasonable or capricious in concluding that the allegedly newly discovered evidence was “available” to Skaro at the time of the trial and that the failure, if any, to discover that evidence was the result of Skaro’s lack of diligence. I, therefore, concur in the majority’s conclusion that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying the motion for a new trial. Because the majority’s analysis of the issue of whether the “new” evidence would have probably produced an acquittal is not necessary to the decision, I do not join in that portion of the opinion.