Court Opinion

ID: 9452524
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 17:43:00.245011+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:33:14.869128
License: Public Domain

J. SKELLY WRIGHT, Circuit Judge
(concurring):
I read the court’s opinion as affirming Troublefield’s conviction on the ground that his lawyer consciously failed to object to the reading of Strohman’s statement, hoping to weave it into a pattern of evidence tending to identify Strohman as the real culprit. If counsel did actually welcome admission of the statement, the trial judge, in letting it in, committed no error at all, plain or otherwise. While the transcript in this case is susceptible to contrary interpretations, the inference drawn by the court is backed by substantial evidence, and I am not prepared to dissent therefrom.