United States v. Gregory Lee Harris and Larry Hollins

OPINION

Before HUFSTEDLER and CHOY, Circuit Judges, and CHRISTENSEN, * District Judge. CHRISTENSEN, District Judge:

We are called upon to decide in this case whether the trial court abused its discretion by denying appellants’ motions for a new trial on the ground of newly discovered evidence relating to the mental competency of a key witness against them, or in refusing the requested appointment of a psychiatrist to assist in a further attempt to establish that the witness was significantly incompetent at the time he testified.

Appellants, together with one Larry Lee Ford, were jointly charged…