Court Opinion

ID: 9474275
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 04:52:48.581874+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:43:59.867113
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KRAVITCH, Circuit Judge,
dissenting, with whom
JOHNSON and CLARK, Circuit Judges, join:
As Judge Johnson points out in his dissent, the standard for evaluating claims of prosecutorial misconduct which this court adopted in Brooks v. Kemp, 762 F.2d 1383, 1413 (11th Cir.1985) (en banc), and which the majority applied in the instant case, is incompatible with the standard enunciated by the Supreme Court in Caldwell v. Mississippi, — U.S.-, 105 S.Ct. 2633, 86 L.Ed.2d 231 (1985). To date, this court has not resolved this potential conflict. Although the majority of the Bowen panel, in its denial of panel rehearing, makes the cursory assertion that there is no conflict between the two standards, it furnishes no analytical basis for such a conclusion. The court has not yet squarely addressed the issue and reconciled the language of Brooks and Caldwell. I therefore dissent from the denial of Bowen’s petition for rehearing en banc.