Mealey's (March 24, 2020, 9:27 AM EDT) -- BOSTON — A First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on March 20 ruled that a federal district court did not err in denying a defendant’s motion for a new trial in a securities fraud criminal action, rejecting the defendant’s argument that the lower court reached its decision after erroneously finding that he failed to sufficiently show that he had received ineffective assistance of counsel in an earlier trial on severed claims (United States v. John Silvia Jr., No. 18-1412, 1st Cir., 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 8849)....