Court Opinion

ID: 9446199
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-03 21:49:03.721736+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:30:34.000617
License: Public Domain

JAMES ALGER FEE, Circuit Judge
(concurring in result).
The language and reasoning of the majority opinion go much too far. Insofar as it is held that introduction of the affidavits at trial does not satisfy the requirements in a denaturalization case, where rigid safeguards of the rights of the defendant are necessarily required, I agree. The dismissal without prejudice was proper. But it seems clear that the Supreme Court did not intend, in establishing such safeguards, to promulgate a technical formula which must be followed, to the letter and at all events, on peril of dismissal upon jurisdictional grounds. This panel should not attempt to bind the court in such manner that we cannot examine other procedural devices in subsequent cases where the defendant may have been fully protected by the filing of the affidavits.