Court Opinion

ID: 9463215
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 23:00:51.241645+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:37:59.136631
License: Public Domain

TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge
(concurring):
The panel opinion presented a scenario of events which I concluded was not supported by the record; consequently, I dissented from what I considered to be unwarranted appellate factfinding for the purposes of *210establishing bad faith on the part of the government. Subsequently, during oral argument before the court en banc, government counsel conceded, as the court’s en banc opinion sets forth, that the facts surmised by the panel majority were indeed correct. It now having been established that there was prosecutorial bad faith in this case in the form of deliberate government manipulation of the federal judicial system, I concur in the opinion of the en banc court.