Court Opinion

ID: 9477161
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 06:15:56.125275+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:45:43.884143
License: Public Domain

GARZA, Circuit Judge, specially
concurring:
I concur in this opinion only because I feel that I must.
I want to state that I do not agree with the en banc opinion of the Eleventh Circuit in Bowen v. Kemp and Dix v. Kemp, 832 F.2d 546 (11th Cir.1987), but I am sitting in the Eleventh Circuit, a circuit other than my own, and I feel that I am bound by the law of the circuit where I am sitting. If this was not so, I would hold that the Sandstrom violation was harmless error and would affirm the conviction of Corn. Feeling bound to follow the law of the Eleventh Circuit, I agree that the error was not harmless.