Court Opinion

ID: 9487289
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 12:12:39.435381+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:52:11.075190
License: Public Domain

MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD, Circuit
Judge, concurring in the judgment.
I agree entirely with that portion of the court’s opinion that deals with the question of double jeopardy. I am, however, of the view that we have jurisdiction to reach the question of whether the nonprosecution agreement has been breached because that question is “effectively unreviewable on appeal from a final judgment.” The agreement spe-eifically promises appellant “not to prosecute” him under certain circumstances. The right that it creates is a right of immunity from trial, and is thus lost if a decision on whether it has been violated has to wait until after the trial. I agree with the reasoning in United States v. Romero, 967 F.2d 68 (2d Cir.1992).
Having said that I would rule on the merits on this issue, a review of the record convinces me that the trial court correctly concluded that the present proceedings do not violate the nonprosecution agreement. I would therefore affirm the district court.