Court Opinion

ID: 9452512
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 17:42:45.458725+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:33:14.629858
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WATERMAN, Circuit Judge
(concurring) :
I concur in affirming the denial of appellants’ motion, and concur in my brother Hays’s opinion disposing of two of appellants’ three claims: the claim that appellants’ constitutional rights were invaded when Birrell’s cash books were admitted into evidence at trial, and the claim that Judge Bonsai should have disqualified himself from acting upon their motion.
However, I do not find enough in any record to satisfy me that appellants, at the time when their trial counsel arranged for the in camera hearing relative to Mr. Z, would have been admitted to Judge Bonsai’s chambers, or to satisfy me that they voluntarily' excluded themselves from attendance knowing what testimony was there to be taken. Therefore, I do not agree that appellants at trial intentionally relinquished a constitutional right that they were aware of at that time.
I do agree that they are fully chargeable with awareness and knowledge of the contents of the printed appendix they filed with us when they took their direct appeals, United States v. Re, 336 F.2d 306 (2 Cir.), cert. denied, 379 U.S. 904, 85 S.Ct. 188 (1964), from their eonvic-*646tions, which appendix contained the complete transcript of the in camera hearing. The issue appellants now seek to raise collaterally was implicit in the claims made to us on the direct appeal, United States v. Re, supra at 318-319; and the trial court, in view of our previous disposition of the issue, properly denied this collateral motion. See United States v. Marchese, 341 F.2d 782, 789 (9 Cir.), cert. denied, 382 U.S. 817, 86 S.Ct. 41, 15 L.Ed.2d 64 (1965); Matysek v. United States, 339 F.2d 389, 391 (9 Cir. 1964), cert. denied, 381 U.S. 917, 85 S.Ct. 1545, 14 L.Ed.2d 437 (1965); Stein v. United States, 313 F.2d 518, 522 (9 Cir. 1962), cert. denied, 373 U.S. 918, 83 S.Ct. 1307 (1963); United States v. Jenkins, 281 F.2d 193 (3 Cir. 1960).