Court Opinion

ID: 9455280
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 19:17:26.719243+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:34:32.264116
License: Public Domain

THORNBERRY, Circuit Judge
(concurring specially):
In a special concurrence in Lee v. Alabama, 5th Cir. 1967, 386 F.2d 97, I expressed my belief that Pate v. Robinson, 1966, 383 U.S. 375, 86 S.Ct. 836, 15 L.Ed.2d 815, demanded that the petitioner be released, conditioned upon the right of the state to retry him within a reasonable time. For the reasons stated in my concurrence in Lee, I respectfully submit that Pate v. Robinson, supra, demands that Mr. Carroll be released, conditioned on the right of the State of Texas to retry him within a reasonable time. In light of the en banc decision in Lee, however, I concur in the majority’s disposition of the case before us.