Court Opinion

ID: 9836994
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-02 03:15:54.999191+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:45:19.712773
License: Public Domain

SULLIVAN, Judge
(concurring):
A key witness was left out of the defense case here. In ruling on the continuance request, the judge seemed to be more concerned with delay and his perceived lateness of the request than the substance of the motion. Speed in the trial process has its place but fairness and justice are far more important factors. I am reminded of an old judicial rhyme:
The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.[*]
I join in this just reversal.

 Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock, canto III, line 21 (1712).