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U.S. v. CONNOLLY

No. 05-2772.

504 F.3d 206 (2007)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. John J. CONNOLLY, Jr., Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided October 16, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Terrance J. McCarthy, by appointment of the court, with whom Edward J. Lonergan and E. Peter Mullane were on brief, for appellant.

William J. Nardini, Special Attorney, with whom Michael J. Sullivan, United States Attorney, and John H. Durham, Special Attorney, were on brief, for appellee.

Before LIPEZ, Circuit Judge, SELYA, Senior Circuit Judge, and HOWARD, Circuit Judge.

SELYA, Senior Circuit Judge.

Defendant-appellant John J. Connolly, Jr., a disgraced former agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), appeals from the denial of his motion for a new trial in a celebrated criminal case. Connolly musters multiple theories in support of his appeal, all of which emanate from the same trove of newly discovered evidence. Unimpressed by the quality of this evidence and constrained by a deferential standard of review, we conclude...

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