Peter J. Hidalgo v. United States

After denying Peter Hidalgo’s 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion, the district court granted a certificate of appealability on the following issue: “Whether Petitioner’s Fifth Amendment right to due process was violated because the government affirmatively misrepresented facts to the jury and the trial court that the government knew or reasonably should have known were false.” The allegedly misrepresented facts go to the extent of the possible reduction in sentence that three government witnesses against Hidalgo could receive in exchange for their testimony and whether one of those witnesses would be…