Court Opinion

ID: 9700935
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-25 21:54:07.337039+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:21:16.198933
License: Public Domain

NEWMAN, Associate Judge,
concurring:
I concur in Judge Belson’s opinion for the court save for his holding based on his reading of United States v. Bagley, 473 U.S. 667, 105 S.Ct. 3375, 87 L.Ed.2d 481 (1985), and Pennsylvania v. Ritchie, — U.S. -, 107 S.Ct. 989, 94 L.Ed.2d 40 (1987). I do so based on the circumstances surrounding Ritchie as accurately set forth in note 6 of his opinion for this court. Since only four justices out of nine joined the section of Ritchie in question, I think it is still an open question whether the failure to disclose impeachable convictions, etc., implicate the confrontation clause as well as the due process clause. On the facts of this case, even applying a confrontation clause analysis, I vote to affirm.