Court Opinion

ID: 9711819
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 04:39:58.050287+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:23:07.509203
License: Public Domain

JUSTICE McDADE, specially concurring: I realize that the United States Supreme Court’s unanimous opinion in Department of Housing and Urban Development v. Rucker, 535 U.S. 125, 152 L. Ed. 2d 258, 122 S. Ct. 1230 (2002), compels the decision which we announce today and with which I reluctantly concur. I write separately to express my dismay with the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the legislation at issue. It is impossible for me to reconcile fundamental principles of fairness and due process with a finding that wholly innocent persons can be punished for the criminal activity of others of which they had no knowledge and over which they had no control.