Court Opinion

ID: 9455121
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 19:11:50.911278+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:34:28.019854
License: Public Domain

BURGER, Circuit Judge,
(dissenting):
I concur fully with Judge Danaher because I adhere to the views expressed in my original opinion for a division of the court in this case. I desire to emphasize only one additional point. Judge McGowan’s present opinion for a majority of the court sitting en banc has focused upon what is now characterized as a defective information when the information is measured by the “newly construed” statutory provision. This is done, notwithstanding that the Appellant made no challenge to the information at trial and the trial court expressed its understanding that Appellant was “charged with * * * use of ‘profane, indecent and obscene words’ under circumstances *651such that a breach of the peace may be occasioned * * *”.1
The trial court conducted these proceedings and I see no basis whatever to substitute this court’s three-and-one-half-year removed “uncertainty that a trial court applied the correct view of a criminal statute to the facts before it.” . I am particularly loath to do so when the resultant disposition serves no reasonable purpose.
WILBUR K. MILLER, J., concurs in this dissent.

. Indeed, before the original division of this court no point was made of the grounds now relied upon by the majority.