Court Opinion

ID: 9442881
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-03 19:02:28.233682+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:29:15.978640
License: Public Domain

On Rehearing
HASTIE, Circuit Judge.
In a petition for rehearing, appellee Bian-co has pointed out an inaccuracy in the statement of facts in the opinion of the court heretofore filed in this case. We stated that informers told Federal Bureau of Investigation agent duBois that one of the persons observed by duBois in the company of Bianco had transferred lottery material to Bianco. However, the evidence does not show that the informers stated to duBois from whom Bianco received lottery material or whether the informers themselves had seen the material. The testimony, given by duBois himself, was merely that informers, believed to be reliable on the basis of past experience, had told him that the bag in question contained lottery material. There was no testimony as to the basis of the informers’ statement.
However, nothing in the reasoning or the conclusion of the court turns upon whether the informers revealed to the FBI agent the basis of their statement as to the content of the bag. We have examined all contentions urged in the petition for rehearing and find none of them persuasive.
The petition will be denied.