Court Opinion

ID: 9448559
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-03 23:39:48.901362+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:31:29.002752
License: Public Domain

O’SULLIVAN, Circuit Judge
(concurring).
I concur in the opinion of Judge DARR. However, I do not wish such concurrence to be construed as expressing a conviction on my part that all of the numerous items of documentary evidence received in this case were sufficiently identified so as to justify their admission. It is not enough that records be merely found in the office of a particular company, or that someone testifies that such records are within his custody, to render them admissible under Section 1732, Title 28, U.S.C.A. In my opinion, some of the record evidence admitted was not sufficiently authenticated or otherwise rendered admissible. Such evidence, however, was cumulative and did not provide any of the essential links in the Government’s case. The admission of such evidence and other rulings by the district judge, charged as erroneous, did not, in my opinion, visit any prejudice upon the appellants nor “affect substantial rights” of such defendants. F.R.Crim.P. 52(a).