Court Opinion

ID: 9448350
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-03 23:32:54.665762+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:31:23.799134
License: Public Domain

BAZELON, Circuit Judge
(concurring in part and dissenting in part).
I agree that this Court’s decision in DeBinder v. United States, 110 U.S.App. D.C. 244, 292 F.2d 737 (1961), applies in the circumstances of this case. I do not purport to decide whether it also applies where more than one prosecution witness has testified before the grand jury. That case, of course, is not before us.
Under my view of DeBinder, if the District Court’s in camera inspection of Officer Joy’s grand jury testimony reveals inconsistencies with his testimony at trial, the District Court is required to make the grand jury minutes available to defendant’s counsel “to urge upon the court, as grounds for a new trial, any material inconsistencies.” Id. 110 U.S.App. D.C. at 246, 292 F.2d at 739. A new trial is required only if the inconsistency is material. The parties are entitled to be heard upon that issue.