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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Scudder finds that the district court improperly denied defendant's motion for a new trial on drug and gun charges without holding an evidentiary hearing. Defendant's trial counsel was addicted to heroin before, during and after the trial. The district court decided without a hearing that the effects of trial counsel's addiction on defendant's trial did not need further exploration in a hearing, but "way too much is at stake to forgo that modest step." Vacated.
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