Court Opinion

ID: 9490535
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 13:46:08.016022+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:54:09.173968
License: Public Domain

CONCURRENCE
BOGGS, Circuit Judge,
concurring.
I voted in favor of the government’s motion that the appellant Lanier be reincarcer-ated, pending our court’s decision on the underlying ease remanded to us by the Supreme Court. I did this because I believe that, subsequent to the Supreme Court action, Lanier’s status is the same as that of any convicted felon awaiting a determination of his appeal, and in that situation bail pending appeal is very rarely granted.
However, I think it is important to place on the record the fact that the government’s motion was granted because it was considered by an en banc court composed of the thirteen judges in regular active service as of the date of the motion plus Judges Keith and Jones. Had the motion been considered by only the active judges, it would not have been granted.
The question of whether the two senior judges should have been included in the en banc court requires a consideration of the status of a senior judge who sat on an original panel that considered the matter, prior to its being heard by the Supreme Court and remanded (Judge Keith), and of a judge who had taken senior status at the time the case was originally heard en banc by the Sixth Circuit, and who, of course, remained on senior status after the case was heard by the Supreme Court, and remanded to our court (Judge Jones). A majority of the judges in regular active service voted that the correct interpretation of the various applicable statutes, rules of appellate procedure, and local rules of our circuit indicated that both judges should be part of the en banc court considering the motion.