Court Opinion

ID: 9445507
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-03 21:31:10.65325+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:30:17.984016
License: Public Domain

On Petition for Rehearing
The petition for a rehearing does not contain anything on which we did not mean to pass in our first decision, and we are filing herewith an order denying it. We refuse to delay doing so, because Potter has not yet begun to serve his sentence of a year and the Supreme Court may well have decided the question now before it on certiorari in Costello v. United States, 352 U.S. 988, 77 S.Ct. 388, 1 L.Ed.2d 367, before Ward and Bowers have served out a year’s sentence which in any event they must do.
However, our mandate will be understood to give leave to the District Court to reduce the sentences of Ward and Bowers in accordance with the Supreme Court’s ruling when it comes down, and also to reduce Potter’s sentence to whatever seems to it just in consideration of what appears to be his present very serious illness.