United States v. Manuel Gonzalez-Gonzalez

LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

This case presents a question this court previously reserved: what is the standard to be applied to a criminal defendant’s motion for a new trial where the claim is that the prosecution knowingly used perjured testimony.

Manuel González^González, convicted of drug conspiracy and money laundering offenses in Puerto Rico, sought a new trial based on what he asserts is newly discovered evidence that two government witnesses recanted their testimony against him after his trial. González says those two witnesses perjured themselves, and that the prosecution knew of at least one…