Court Opinion

ID: 9481883
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 08:34:35.117138+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:48:38.312193
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CUDAHY, Circuit Judge,
concurring.
I agree wholly with almost all that Judge Eschbach has written for the panel. I write separately only to indicate my belief that the proper test for measuring any prosecutor’s refusal to file a Rule 35(b) motion is whether the refusal is arbitrary or in bad faith. See United States v. Smitherman, 889 F.2d 189, 191 (8th Cir.1989), cert. denied, — U.S. -, 110 S.Ct. 1493, 108 L.Ed.2d 629 (1990). United States v. Bayles, 923 F.2d 70, 71-72 (7th Cir.1991), leans somewhat against finding such an exception, and United States v. Donatiu, 922 F.2d 1331, 1334-35 & n. 3 (7th Cir.1991), remains agnostic on the matter; neither resolved the issue definitively. Other circuits, as Judge Eschbach points *207out, are not consistent on the question, and at this time I believe that due process requires such an exception to the government’s discretion.