Court Opinion

ID: 9479359
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 07:15:43.928982+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:46:58.748436
License: Public Domain

RONEY, Chief Judge,
concurring:
I concur in the result reached by the opinion of Judge Kravitch, and much of what is said therein. I also agree with much of what is said in Judge Hill’s and Judge Edmondson’s dissenting opinions. There is no doubt the present federal habe-as corpus law presents difficulties in terminating litigation. Following the logic and the rationale of the United States Supreme Court decisions at this time, however, I am compelled to conclude that as the law now stands, Judge Kravitch has decided this case the way it must be decided by this Court. In my judgment, pro se litigants should not be accorded the deferential treatment now given them by the decided cases, but to deny the distinction here made between pro se and counselled habe-as corpus petitioners would be inconsistent with what is already on the books.