Court Opinion

ID: 8572664
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-11-23 15:12:49.158439+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:53:55.616846
License: Public Domain

FERGUSON, Judge
(concurring in the result) :
I concur in the result. I agree unreservedly with the author of the principal opinion that the evidence in this case is insufficient, as a matter of law, to establish that the accused made an offer of “any money or thing of value” to the shore patrolman within the meaning of 18 USC § 201. I reach this result even if I assume that the evidence of the accused’s statement was untainted by the earlier illegal search. Thus, it is unnecessary to decide the issue of the effect of that quest, and I prefer to express no view thereon in this case.