Court Opinion

ID: 9466627
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 01:21:22.205603+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:39:50.325986
License: Public Domain

WALLACE, Circuit Judge,
concurring:
I concur in the result reached by the majority. The cross-examination of the second juvenile accomplice elicited the admitted commission of 48 burglaries without objection. The relevance and materiality of the evidence was obvious. I agree with the majority that the sua sponte striking of this evidence requires reversal. I therefore would not reach the question whether Burr’s counsel preserved the error when he failed to specify with clarity the basis of his cross-examination of the first juvenile accomplice on similar facts. As the question will not arise during retrial, there is no reason for us to reach the issue.