In Re: The Estate of Vicente Candelaria Dela Cruz, Deceased. Jose Roberto Dela Cruz v. Jesus Cruz

CANBY, Circuit Judge.

The question that appellant Jose Cruz attempts to present by this appeal is whether it violated due process for the trial court in his civil case to consider against him his own affidavit that he appended to a motion and submitted to the court, when that affidavit was never admitted into evidence. In order to reach that question, however, we must decide a procedural threshold question that arises from our limited jurisdiction over appeals from the Supreme Court of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (“CNMI”). Our review of the decisions of that Court is…