JON O. NEWMAN, Circuit Judge.
This appeal primarily presents the issue of whether a district judge, considering a report and recommendation of a magistrate judge who observed a witness and credited the witness's key testimony, may reject that testimony on credibility grounds without holding a hearing and assessing the witness's credibility. Bernard Cullen appeals from the March 25, 1998, order of the United States District Court for the District of Vermont (J. Garvan...
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