Court Opinion

ID: 9456860
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 20:04:25.57546+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:35:07.519253
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On Petition for Rehearing

PER CURIAM:
Subsequent to the filing of our opinion on January 13, 1971, reversing the appellant’s conviction and remanding the case for a new trial the Government filed a petition for rehearing which the panel has unanimously granted.
Alleging that the relevance of 18 U.S. C. § 5035 was not called to the attention of the trial court by either party, the Government seeks an opportunity to present evidence with reference to whether the pre-arraignment custodial detention of appellant was not “for a longer period than [was] necessary to produce the juvenile before a committing magistrate,” 18 U.S.C. § 5035.
A panel majority modifies our mandate. While retaining jurisdiction over the case in the appellate court, the case is remanded so as to provide the Government the opportunity it desires, the evidentiary hearing to be limited to the Government’s request, that of developing facts bearing upon the issue of delay prior to arraignment.
Circuit Judge Waterman considers the grant to the Government of this “second bite of the apple” while the case is on appeal as setting a most extraordinary precedent in view of the fact that the Government failed to carry its burden of demonstrating its compliance with 18 U.S.C. §§ 5031-5037 at the first trial and, by our present mandate, has already been given the opportunity of carrying that burden at the new trial we have ordered. He would deny the relief the Government seeks by its petition.