I submit to you he should exercise diligence in finding this new evidence, and absent a showing of due diligence, it is an imposition on the whole judicial system and on justice itself because there is merit, real merit, in bringing these matters to finality and to closure. They would endlessly be open under the gentleman's amendment.
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