Court Opinion

ID: 9492388
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 14:40:18.631044+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:55:17.176978
License: Public Domain

RICHARD S. ARNOLD, Circuit Judge,
concurring in the judgment.
I agree that the order of the District Court must be affirmed, and I concur in much of the Court's opinion.
As to the District Court's use of an ex parte affidavit submitted by the government, I concur only on the ground that the issue was not properly preserved below. On the merits of the question whether such use is proper and consistent with due process, I express no view.
*999In addition, I do not wish to be understood as approving any order that would prohibit a client or his current attorney from interviewing a former attorney. As the Court observes, no such order was entered here. On this state of the record, it seems to me, appellant and his current lawyer are free to interview his former lawyer.