Court Opinion

ID: 9453658
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 18:19:58.957071+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:33:44.857613
License: Public Domain

BOREMAN, Circuit Judge,
joining with Chief Judge HAYNSWORTH in concurring in result:
I, too, concur in the result reached by the majority insofar as the conviction is set aside and the opportunity is provided for the state to retry the petitioner. I readily join with Chief Judge Hayns-worth in his separate statement of concurrence in the result which I adopt.
I would emphasize the thought that the court exceeds its judicial function in unnecessarily deciding a question which is not presented by the present record and I echo Judge Haynsworth’s observation that the decision of the majority “imposes far-reaching and extremely costly consequences in the general administration of criminal justice. If the unlikely question ever is presented to a court, it will be time enough to face it then.”