trial-standard

Case	Title	Lower Court	Docketed	Status	Flags	Tags	Question Presented
25-5651	Jose Henry Hernandez-Garcia v. United States	Fourth Circuit	2025-09-16	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	criminal-procedure district-court-discretion evidence-weighing judicial-review motion-for-new-trial trial-standard	Whether a district court abuses its discretion when ruling on a defendant's motion for a new trial by not independently weighing the evidence presente…
20-6030	Byron A. Wyatt v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2020-10-15	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	criminal-procedure evidentiary-sufficiency interest-of-justice interests-of-justice material-evidence newly-discovered-evidence rule-33 standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence trial-standard	Whether F.R.Crim.P. Rule 33's standard for granting a new trial based on newly discovered evidence 'if the interest of justice so requires' cannot be …
19-7180	Rafael Leonhard Wolfga Beier v. United States	Ninth Circuit	2020-01-06	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure mental-impairment motion-for-new-trial newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief rule-33 standard-of-review standards-for-new-trial trial-standard	Does a criminal defendant's discovery of a recognized mental impairment after conviction at trial constitute newly discovered evidence under Federal R…