Court Opinion

ID: 9446111
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-03 21:46:26.466657+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:30:31.732807
License: Public Domain

On Petition for Rehearing
PER CURIAM.
Upon consideration of the petition for rehearing, we are of opinion that it is not proper for this court to determine whether the appellants were prejudiced by failure to make available the prior statement of a witness, any more than it would be proper for the trial court to determine whether a prior statement of a witness should be turned over to defense counsel on the basis of whether the statement is inconsistent with the witness’s testimony in open court.
The petition for rehearing seems to imply that the Jencks case, removed this function from the district court only to place it within the province of the Court of Appeals. We are not disposed to adopt that view, and accordingly the petition for rehearing is denied.