United States v. Quiles

OPINION OF THE COURT

GREENBERG, Circuit Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

This matter comes on before this Court on appeal from judgments of conviction and sentence entered against two defendants in the District Court in which the government’s case relied heavily on the testimony of an undercover informant. After the jury found defendants guilty at the trial, a state grand jury indicted the informant in an unrelated matter on charges of child rape and other heinous sexual crimes. Once defendants learned about the informant’s indictment, they sought a new trial under Fed.R.Crim.P. 33. The District Court…