Key legal question
Whether the private psychological report constituted new and material evidence justifying reopening of the final criminal judgment.
Extracted holding
No. The report dealt mainly with issues already litigated and amounted to a new party allegation and appellate criticism of earlier evidence assessment, not genuinely new decisive facts.
Extracted reasoning
A new ground for reopening requires facts or evidence unknown in the prior proceedings and capable of undermining the earlier judgment. A privately obtained expert opinion does not become new merely because it was produced later; what matters is whether it introduces truly new facts rather than reargues already decided evidentiary questions.