Court Opinion

ID: 9452476
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 17:41:48.077023+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:33:13.885196
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HASTIE, Circuit Judge
(concurring).
The argument of fundamental unfairness presented by the dissenting opinion here is impressive. However, unlike the dissenters, I think the essential objections to the admission of evidence of the death of a victim of the affray, other than the one for whose murder the accused was on trial, were no more valid here than in Ciucci v. State of Illinois, 1958, 356 U.S. 571, 78 S.Ct. 839. So, believing that the Ciucci case authoritatively decided the constitutional question presented by this appeal, I concur in the affirmance of the judgment of the district court.
WILLIAM F. SMITH, Circuit Judge, asks that his concurrence in these views be recorded.