Court Opinion

ID: 9537294
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 07:15:26.600962+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:56:23.034730
License: Public Domain

MR. JUSTICE GROVES
specially concurring:
Whether or not the prosecutor had actual knowledge that the police had the victim’s gun and had established that the bullet removed from the defendant’s foot was fired from this gun, the defendant is entitled to a new trial for the reasons expressed in the majority opinion. In the event that the prosecutor did have actual knowledge of these facts at the time of trial, I could not object to the language in the opinion which is critical of him.
There is a strong inference in the majority opinion that the prosecutor was possessed of the facts. On the contrary, the record merely shows that bullet and ballistics report were in the hands of the police. The opinion has the flavor of a disciplinary judgment against the prosecutor. Under the state of the record, this is a bit unwarranted.