Court Opinion

ID: 9494484
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 15:38:41.024004+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:56:26.025160
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BOGGS, Circuit Judge,
dissenting from Order extending the Stay of Execution to October 8, 2001.
On the afternoon of Monday, September 10, this court issued an order containing the language “but the execution will be stayed until September 18, 2001, upon the request of a panel member.... ” Late that day, I made a request for an en banc vote, and a voting ballot was sent out by the Clerk that evening asking for votes to “determine whether to vacate the 8-day stay of execution entered in this case.” It would, of course, have been absurd for such a ballot to be sent out if no stay were in effect.
A candid reader may compare the above undisputed facts with the statements in the addenda to Judge Jones’s concurrence, which he filed on September 19.
The addenda also contains the statement “that a majority of the active judges (confirmed by the Clerk) had expressed a desire to join in the thirty day stay....” No information has come to my attention to suggest that the Clerk so confirmed the position of a majority of the active judges.