Court Opinion

ID: 9448590
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-03 23:41:01.224634+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:31:30.056812
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*285J. SPENCER BELL, Circuit Judge
(concurring specially).
On the authority of Draper v. United States, 358 U.S. 307, 79 S.Ct. 329, 3 L. Ed.2d 327, whose facts are indistinguishable from this case, I concur in the result.
However, I do not wish to associate myself with the unqualified statement in the opinion that officers are not required to procure a warrant, even when it is practicable for them to do so, but may arrest and search without a warrant upon reasonable grounds to believe that a felony has been committed, as well as when one is being committed in their presence. This broad statement is highly debatable and is not required for the decision of the case. Also, I would omit the discussion of the Trupiano and Rab-inowitz cases, just as the Supreme Court found a discussion of them unnecessary in its opinion in Draper. Moreover, the effect of Rabinowitz on Trupiano has certainly been modified, in some circumstances, by the more recent case of Chapman v. United States, 366 U.S. 610, 81 S.Ct. 776, 5 L.Ed.2d 828. I would leave the determination of the ultimate rule to await a case requiring it.