Court Opinion

ID: 9456109
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 19:42:11.555476+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:34:50.934982
License: Public Domain

BAZELON, Chief Judge
(concurring) :
I concur in the court’s opinion. In view of the court’s holding, it is not necessary, strictly speaking, to decide whether it was error to relitigate the pretrial suppression ruling. I believe, however, that the proper administration of justice in this circuit requires us to say that the Government did not advance sufficient justification to warrant the trial judge in reconsidering another judge’s prior order suppressing the illegally seized evidence. United States v. Greely, 138 U.S.App.D.C. 161, 425 F.2d 592 (1970); McRae v. United States, 137 U.S.App.D.C. 80, 420 F.2d 1283 (1969). Cf. 18 U.S.C. § 3731 (Supp. V, 1970) (authorizing government appeals from pre-trial orders suppressing evidence) .