Court Opinion

ID: 9447181
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-03 22:28:00.566739+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:30:55.874010
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CLARK, Circuit Judge
(dissenting).
In this case Chief Judge Bruchhausen, an experienced and restrained trial judge who heard and observed the several witnesses (including the defendant) at the three-day trial, made extensive findings and wrote a complete and convincing opinion, D.C.E.D.N.Y., 168 F.Supp. 631-636, to support his over-all conclusion: “The credible evidence is that the defendant concealed his criminal record from the authorities for more than twenty-five years and only divulged it when he could no longer challenge the inevitable.” His findings under these circumstances should not be rejected unless they are shown to be clearly mistaken. Corrado v. United States, 6 Cir., 227 F.2d 780, 784, certiorari denied 351 U.S. 925, 76 S.Ct. 781, 100 L.Ed. 1455; F.R. 52(a). Actually they seem to me unanswered and unanswerable on this record. In fact the opinion does not attempt to answer the detailed case presented in the opinion *294below, but allows itself to be drawn off into a semantic morass, giving quite undue emphasis on this record to only a single question. There is just a hint of the strength of the government’s case in the concession of the defendant’s clear perjury in his written denial under oath in Palermo in 1925 of having been in prison or of being a member of the class of “Criminals.” No excuse for this is here possible; and the other cumulative evidence analyzed by Judge Bruchhausen makes his result inevitable. His judgment should be affirmed.