Court Opinion

ID: 9451235
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 17:10:43.565291+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:32:37.403510
License: Public Domain

KAUFMAN, Circuit Judge
(concurring) :
I concur. Properly interpreted, Escobedo reflects a judicial determination to cut through formal distinctions and to disregard procedural niceties. As my Brother Friendly has observed, the Court in Escobedo was insistent that the actual commencement of a criminal prosecution would be determinative, whatever the time of formal indictment or arraignment. It would indeed be ironic if we were mechanically to invoke Escobedo here and thus to transform a concern for substance into a rigid and mechanistic formula. Instead, we must look behind the surface formalities and not permit ourselves to be distracted by descriptive labels or catch phrases which obfuscate the marrow.
I, therefore, agree with my Brothers LUMBARD and FRIENDLY.