Court Opinion

ID: 9455593
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 19:26:36.427494+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:34:39.046241
License: Public Domain

J. JOSEPH SMITH, Circuit Judge
(concurring in the result):
I agree that the warrant was properly issued here. The only matter which gives me concern is the failure to obey the command that it be executed “forthwith.” Orders for the invasion of homes should not be loosely construed. See Judge Bazelon’s concurring opinion in Mitchell v. United States, 103 U.S.App.D.C. 341, 258 F.2d 435 (1958). Ho.wever, in the absence of any apparent prejudice here from the nine day delay (as the opinion points out, there is nothing to indicate that the heroin seized was not that which was there on June 13), I concur in the affirmance of the conviction. Cf. House v. United States, 411 F.2d 725 (D.C. Cir.1969).