United States v. Gonzales

Former Assistant United States Attorney Thomas English seeks review of district court post-judgment orders allegedly censuring him for misconduct in connection with his handling of a material witness in United States v. Gonzales, 95-CR-538 (D.N.M., filed Oct. 18, 1995). In a decision dismissing the appeal, the Court holds Attorney English “was not injured in the legal sense by those orders and therefore lacks standing to appeal.” Court’s Op. at 6-7. Because I believe the language of the district court’s orders constituted a sanction sufficiently injurious to give Attorney English standing to…