Court Opinion

ID: 9487907
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 12:29:48.108915+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:52:33.450431
License: Public Domain

JOHN R. GIBSON, Senior Circuit Judge,
concurring.
I concur in the court’s decision and judgment, and in Part I. For the most part I agree with the language in Part II. However, I have considerable misgivings about the practice of the Assistant United States District Attorney displaying his personal notes of testimony using an overhead projector. Perhaps it is pedagogy, but I have some concern that this overly emphasizes and gives undue prominence to the United States Attorney’s interpretation of the evidence. In the future, I hope that our district judges will be extremely cautious in allowing such methods. Perhaps capable counsel will recognize that pedagogical devices are no substitute for effective advocacy.