McKAY, Circuit Judge.
We are called upon in this case to decide the proper weight to be given to a recanted recantation. The defendant was tried and convicted of hiring one Jackson to burn down a store. The linchpin of the government's case against the defendant was Mr. Jackson's trial testimony that the defendant paid him to burn the store down. Prior to the trial Mr. Jackson had told the defendant's son that the defendant did not have anything to do with the fire...
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