Robert Wayne Holsey v. Warden, Georgia Diagonstic Prison

I stand with Judge Carnes about the correct judgment in this appeal: AFFIRM the District Court’s judgment to deny habeas corpus relief to the state prisoner petitioner. I — very respectfully — do not join in Judge Carnes’s erudite opinion. I stress that it is not because the opinion says something that I am sure is wrong or I am sure is even likely wrong. I agree with much of the opinion, at least. But the opinion says a lot and says more than I think is absolutely needed.

In my experience, longish opinions always present a strong possibility of error lurking somewhere in the text. That the…