Court Opinion

ID: 9489113
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 13:06:06.450226+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:53:19.806076
License: Public Domain

CYR, Circuit Judge,
concurring.
I agree that the importation convictions must be vacated, as ably explained in Section III.A of Chief Judge Torruella’s opinion for the en banc court. I write separately because I believe that neither the majority opinion nor the dissent succeeds in demonstrating that the opposing result is absurd. Whichever result Congress clearly chose to require could not have been rejected by the courts as absurd. Moreover, in my view the interpretation given section 952 by the en banc court reflects greater allegiance to the ordinary meaning of the statutory language Congress did use.