Court Opinion

ID: 9463371
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 23:04:33.7866+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:38:03.540948
License: Public Domain

DUNIWAY, Circuit Judge
(concurring and dissenting):
Like Judge Hufstedler, I concur in Part II of Judge Trask’s majority opinion. In all other respects, save one, I join in Judge Hufstedler’s dissent. I differ with Judge Hufstedler in her view that the question before us is a question of law. I think that Judge Trask is right in saying that the question is whether the court’s finding that the government used the required reasonable efforts to produce the informants is clearly erroneous. Unlike Judge Trask, however, and like Judge Hufstedler, I am convinced that the finding is, in these cases, clearly erroneous, for the reasons stated by Judge Hufstedler in also concluding that there was error as a matter of law. I am “left with the definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been committed.” United States v. United States Gypsum Co., 1948, 333 U.S. 364, 395, 68 S.Ct. 525, 542, 92 L.Ed. 746. Therefore I concur, except in this one respect, in Judge Hufstedler’s dissent.