Court Opinion

ID: 9465459
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 00:47:09.526605+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:39:11.638401
License: Public Domain

TAKASUGI, District Judge,
dissenting:
I must dissent.
This nation must manifest integrity in our treaties with foreign countries. To honor the provisions of Article 36 of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, as noted in footnote 6 of the majority opinion, mandates a sense of justice and decency. To do anything less is a severe erosive compromise of our very essence equal if not greater than a Constitutional violation.
For the foregoing reasons, I order an affirmance of the district court decision, or in the alternative, to remand the case to the district court imposing the burden on the government to establish the absence of prejudice.