Court Opinion

ID: 9451497
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 17:18:38.774206+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:32:46.415882
License: Public Domain

WARREN L. JONES, Circuit Judge
(dissenting).
The effect of the determination of the majority will probably result in the discharge of two persons convicted of bank robbery. The decision of the majority is made, at least in part, on the basis of facts outside the record. These facts are considered, so it is said, in order to avoid having a post conviction proceeding instituted. I am not persuaded that this is any justification for considering on appeal something which was not in the record and not before the trial court. Post conviction remedies were intended to cover situations where the right to relief was not disclosed by the record. It follows from the opinion of the majority that it is improper for observers of a crime to see a person suspected or accused of the offense prior to trial. I had no notion that this was prohibited.
*561I do not think it has been previously held that putting a suspect or an accused in a line-up and treating him in the same manner as the others are treated is or may be a violation of a constitutional right.
I would follow the decisions cited by the majority rather than the dissenting views in those eases. Therefore I dissent.