Court Opinion

ID: 9462732
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 22:48:44.338512+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:37:45.003015
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OAKES, Circuit Judge
(concurring):
I concur in the result.
In the light of the admissions on the Christian tape, any failure to advise the defense of the identity of the informer was harmless error. Any entrapment defense would have been unavailing in any event. Hampton v. United States, - U.S. -, 96 S.Ct. 1646, 48 L.Ed.2d 113, 44 U.S.L.W. 4542 (1976). While counsel’s suggestion that the late Ms. Summers was the informant probably had the effect Edmonds *722thought it had, of “promoting” his guilt in the eyes of the jury, his absence from the courtroom at his own request would have tended to offset the harm from counsel’s tactics; Judge Owen handled the matter as best he could.