Court Opinion

ID: 9464354
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 23:31:17.667082+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:38:34.844197
License: Public Domain

GEE, Circuit Judge,
specially concurring:
I am in general agreement with the majority opinion and the result. I write to state briefly my own precise view, which I do not think is in conflict with the majority. For essentially the reasons given, and because it is now so painstakingly specific, it seems to me that Amended Rule 11 intends a litany. Not one, to be sure, for mere recitation; the trial judge must carefully and personally explore the defendant’s understanding of each of its items. But a litany in the sense that we should not lightly, or perhaps not at all, undertake to add to it or diminish it by construction. Instead, it is simply to be followed as written, and if so followed, it suffices.