Court Opinion

ID: 9464601
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 23:38:12.141044+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:38:43.716144
License: Public Domain

*77OAKES, Circuit Judge
(concurring):
I agree with everything that Judge Wyatt says in Parts 1 through 6 and Part 8 of his opinion, and therefore agree that the judgment should be reversed and the indictment reinstated. I would not reach the question discussed in Part 7 of Judge Wyatt’s opinion whether there are “exceptional circumstances” under Rule 5(h) of the Western District Plan, since the excludable periods of time referred to in Part 8 are sufficient to require reversal. Moreover, I am concerned about the state of the factual record below as to the excludability of time necessary for the Government’s making scientific laboratory analysis, particularly since it does not appear that the Government moved to have this time excluded as the analysis was being made or took any other steps to protect itself. Since it seems to me this case could have some implications in respect to the operation of the Speedy Trial Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3161 et seq., I would not reach a question which it seems to me the record does not require us to reach.