State v. Hawkins

*172¶1 After a defendant is convicted of a crime, the trial court may order a new trial if the defendant produces newly discovered evidence that is material and could not have been discovered with reasonable diligence and produced at trial. CrR 7.5(a)(3). We give a trial court a great deal of deference when it orders a new trial because it is in the best position to weigh the evidence and because it has no incentive to crowd its docket with frivolous retrials. Here, the trial court granted a new trial after Edwin Troy Hawkins produced new evidence that supported his defense theory that he was…