Court Opinion

ID: 9776221
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 19:27:49.634484+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:32:36.058387
License: Public Domain

THOMPSON, Circuit Judge,
dissenting from the denial of rehearing en bane.
For the reasons so well articulated by my dissenting colleagues, I agree with them that our precedent does not compel the conclusion reached by the majority and that this case — whose core question, simply put, is at what point should a reasonable person believe that the government is lying to them6 — presents an issue of exceptional importance to be considered by the full court. See Fed. R.App. P. 35(a)(2). Accordingly, I readily join my colleagues in dissenting from denial of rehearing en banc. I write separately to profess the following: assuming our precedent does indeed mandate the outrageous conclusion reached by the majority, the grave injustice seething from such a result surely provides more than enough reason for us to reexamine the precedent that currently restrains us. I dissent.

. This is not a question of sympathy, but rather, American civics.