United States v. Carl Robert Christy, United States of America v. Carl Robert Christy

OPINION

K.K. HALL, Circuit Judge:

Carl Robert Christy appeals the district court’s denial of his motion for a new trial based upon newly discovered evidence. We affirm.

I

In July 1989, Christy was convicted in a jury trial of conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine, 21 U.S.C. § 846, and sentenced to 300 months of imprisonment to be followed by five years of supervised release. This Court affirmed Christy’s conviction in an unpublished per curiam opinion. See United States v. Christy, 911 F.2d 725 (4th Cir.1990).

Following his conviction, Christy…