An appellate court will not disturb a trial judge's findings of fact, including credibility assessments, where the findings were open on the evidence and the appellant has not demonstrated that the findings were contrary to incontrovertible facts or compelling inferences, or were glaringly improbable. Letters written by a deceased witness months after the events described, containing significant factual errors, may properly be given virtually no evidentiary weight.
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