Court Opinion

ID: 9466768
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 01:27:05.697165+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:39:56.865658
License: Public Domain

*787JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge,
concurring:
I concur fully and unequivocally in the opinion of the Court. I write simply to alert the bench and bar that the problem posed by . United States v. Dinneen, 577 F.2d 919 (5th Cir. 1978), is now a matter solely of history. Subsequent to Dinneen, the Administrative Office of the United States Courts altered the form for a bond contract to provide explicitly for coverage of appeals. Form 17 has been amended to state:
It is agreed and understood that this is a continuing bond (including any proceeding on appeal or review) which shall continue in full force and effect until such time as the undersigned are duly exonerated.
The underscored language was added to clarify specifically the continuing nature of the bond throughout the process of review. Now and forever after we are released from the bonds of Dinneen and may proceed more surely in our review of the continuance of the surety bond through the bonded’s appeal.