Court Opinion

ID: 9429957
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 23:28:26.379783+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:23:22.352518
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Justice Blackmun,
concurring.
In view of respondents’ fugitive status, see ante, at 681-682, n. 2, I would have vacated the judgment of the Court of Appeals and remanded the case to that court with directions to dismiss the respondents’ appeal from the District Court’s judgment to the Court of Appeals. See Molinaro v. New Jersey, 396 U. S. 365 (1970).
This Court, however, does not follow that path, and chooses to decide the case on the merits. I therefore also reach the merits and join the Court’s opinion.