A psychologist's report and pre-sentence report that address an offender's psychiatric condition in detail may be sufficient to satisfy the sentencing court's need for information about that condition; the failure to obtain a psychiatrist's report does not, without more, establish a miscarriage of justice warranting reception of new evidence on appeal. The new evidence must add something of substance to what was before the sentencing judge and must be shown to have been likely to lead to a materially different outcome.
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