Court Opinion

ID: 9448570
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-03 23:40:12.486902+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:31:29.331509
License: Public Domain

On Petition for Rehearing.
WOODBURY, Chief Judge.
In our opinion of November 7, 1961, 296 F.2d 527, we said that the Jencks Act imposed no duty on the agents of the FBI to take the statements of witnesses and no duty, at least in the absence of bad faith, to keep any statements that might have been taken. Therefore, there being no evidence from which it could possibly be found that Toomey destroyed his notes in bad faith, the question propounded by this petition for rehearing whether his notes, had they not been destroyed, would be producible under subsection (e) (1) of the Act is academic. -The petition for rehearing is denied.