Court Opinion

ID: 9459777
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 21:31:51.974816+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:36:20.363579
License: Public Domain

COLEMAN, Circuit Judge
(concurring) :
I concur in the decision that Bruce must be given a meaningful hearing in the District Court. I do this solely because, as described in the opinion prepared by Judge Gewin, the State Court hearing failed to meet the necessary standards of adequacy.
I cannot understand why an “advisory jury” was asked its opinion on the sole issue involved in the post-conviction collateral attack. In such cases as this, findings of fact and conclusions of law are the responsibility of Judges, not juries.
There is much else that I might say about this case but, hopefully, the hearing to be held in the District Court will have extirpated the necessity for such remarks.