Court Opinion

ID: 9498564
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 17:20:45.976326+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:58:54.291200
License: Public Domain

MERRITT, Circuit Judge,
concurring.
I concur in the Court’s opinion in Part I. issuing the writ as to the sentencing phase of the case for the reasons stated therein. I concur in the Court’s opinion as to all of petitioner White’s claims as to the guilt phase of the ease. Having issued the writ as to the sentencing phase of the case on this basis, I would not reach the other claims as to the sentencing phase of the case. I would pretermit those claims. My view is that we need not reach the other sentencing phase claims and that an opinion on those claims is merely advisory, or at least merely dicta, unnecessary for the opinion to address.