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THE CHAIRMAN: Does any delegate desire to
speak in opposition?
Delegate Dukes.
DELLCATE DUKES: I rise to speak in opposition
to the amendment. There seems to be some inference that
there might be a direct relation between multiples of
three on the bench and being able to sit in three man panel;
I should think it would be immediately obvious that
five judges could use a three-man panel system equally as
well as six or seven or eight judges. It means that on tho>
days when only three judges are sitting the other two
judges could be clearing up decisions; or on a day when
one or two judges might be absent, sick, you could go ahead
with the docket.
They do not need to make panels out of six or
nine to augment the three man panel. You could
have one or two judges that would give you a multiple number
of different possibilities of panels, and, of course, in
those days when you aren't using the full number of judges
those judges are clearing up opinions and generally a case-
load.