Court Opinion

ID: 9471157
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 03:26:01.889023+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:42:17.467069
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CLARK, Circuit Judge,
dissenting.
I agree with Chief Judge Godbold, the district court and the prosecutor1 that these were not separate and distinct offenses. The majority opinion cannot make them separate by saying they are. Amos Lisenby, unlike Hoffa, Missler, and Grieco, did not embark upon subsequent criminal activity. He was solicited to attend the meeting with his brother and government informer Oblisk by telephone calls from Oblisk2 at the instigation of the government. The recorded inculpatory statements then furnished the prosecutor with the evidence necessary to convict Amos Lisenby. Massiah v. United States, 377 U.S. 201, 84 S.Ct. 1199, 12 L.Ed.2d 246 (1964).

. “Lisenby retained counsel, who notified the prosecutor of his representation. The prosecutor told defense counsel that he expected to get an indictment against Lisenby on the conspiracy charge.” Chief Judge Godbold’s dissent at 1360.

. Oblisk called the Lisenby brothers fourteen times at the direction of the government.