Court Opinion

ID: 9442239
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-03 18:41:02.004229+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:29:01.531643
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Upon Petition for Rehearing
PER CURIAM.
Upon petition for rehearing it is urged that our decision runs counter to Oriolo v. United States, 324 U.S. 824, 65 S.Ct. 683, 89 L.Ed. 1393. There, by memorandum opinion, the Court reversed United States v. Oriolo, 3 Cir., 146 F.2d 152, on the authority of Mortensen v. United States, 322 U.S. 369, 64 S.Ct. 1037, 88 L.Ed. 1331.
As pointed out by Judge Biggs, dissenting from the opinion of the Court of Appeals, the parties there simply took a day’s outing at Atlantic City, New Jersey, all the time intending to resume the prostitution at Philadelphia. It was thought by Judge Biggs that the fact that defendant lost his car at Atlantic City, and that as they left New Jersey on the return trip by train he remarked to the woman that she must earn money for him so he could recover his car did not demonstrate a sufficient change of purpose to distinguish the case from the Mortensen case. He thought the difference between transportation to earn money for defendant to recover his car and transportation to earn money for him, was too trivial to be significant. Evidently the Supreme Court agreed.
What we have previously said with respect to the whole purpose of the trip to Mexico and return sufficiently discloses that our decision did not proceed upon the theory of any change of purpose. For that reason we think the decision in the Oriolo case, supra, is inapplicable here.
The petition for rehearing is denied.