Court Opinion

ID: 9629139
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 09:37:59.431187+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:07:15.944546
License: Public Domain

KANNE, Circuit Judge,
dissenting from the denial of the stay of the mandate.
The majority in this order has adopted the rationale of Judge Wood’s in chambers opinion. I dissent because I disagree with the in chambers opinion’s characterizations of the dissent from the panel opinion and the dissent from the rehearing en banc, the in chambers opinion’s emphasis and reliance on forfeiture; and that opinion’s conclusion that the appellants have not demonstrated a reasonable probability of success on the merits. The trial was rid-*512died with errors that ultimately rendered the proceedings manifestly unfair and unjust, notwithstanding the production of overwhelming incriminating evidence against the appellants. Therefore, because the trial was “broken beyond repair,” there is good cause for a stay and the appellants have a reasonable probability of succeeding on the merits.