Court Opinion

ID: 9482033
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 08:38:12.925536+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:48:43.285167
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BIRCH, Circuit Judge,
dissenting:
For the following reasons, I respectfully dissent. Based on the response to this court’s request for a copy of the authorization of the Solicitor General to appeal this case pursuant to Sentencing Guidelines, I am convinced that we do not have jurisdiction over this appeal. The Department of Justice submitted to the court the approved document. That document indicates that the authorization to appeal was signed on January 4, 1990. Such authorization never appeared in the record presented to this *42court initially, and was given some ten months after the notice of appeal was filed. Accordingly for the reasons set out in my previous dissent in United States v. Long, 911 F.2d 1482 (11th Cir.1990), it is my opinion that this court does not have jurisdiction over this matter.