v. barsky, the seventh arcuit held that petitioner's prior convictions no longer qualified as predicate offenses under certain criminal act. again, following precedent of the supreme court and the seventh circuit. i'm just picking out a few. you have got a very full record of these. in my view, i only found one case where you actually did not follow seventh circuit president. -- p[recedent. and that was the case of g v. the united states. why did you not follow the precedent then? judge barrett: in that case there was precedent that was all on point and the supreme court issued a series of subsequent decisions which called our prior precedent into doubt. so, the seventh circuit has a rule called circuit rule 40e and when we conclude as a full-court you circulated opinion to the full court to say i think our president should be overruled because it had fallen out of step with later developments in the supreme court. i circulated that precedent, the opinion pursuant to 40e, and the full court agreed and we overruled precedent. sen. crapo: the way i would summarize that is the court, with

v. barsky, the seventh arcuit held that petitioner's prior convictions no longer qualified as predicate offenses under certain criminal act. again, following precedent of the supreme court and the seventh circuit. i'm just picking out a few. you have got a very full record of these. in my view, i only found one case where you actually did not follow seventh circuit president. -- p[recedent. and that was the case of g v. the united states. why did you not follow the precedent then? judge barrett: in that case there was precedent that was all on point and the supreme court issued a series of subsequent decisions which called our prior precedent into doubt. so, the seventh circuit has a rule called circuit rule 40e and when we conclude as a full-court you circulated opinion to the full court to say i think our president should be overruled because it had fallen out of step with later developments in the supreme court. i circulated that precedent, the opinion pursuant to 40e, and the full court agreed and we overruled precedent. sen. crapo: the way i would summarize that is the court, with

v. barsky, the seventh arcuit held that petitioner's prior convictions no longer qualified as predicate offenses under certain criminal act. again, following precedent of the supreme court and the seventh circuit. i'm just picking out a few. you have got a very full record of these. in my view, i only found one case where you actually did not follow seventh circuit president. -- p[recedent. and that was the case of g v. the united states. why did you not follow the precedent then? judge barrett: in that case there was precedent that was all on point and the supreme court issued a series of subsequent decisions which called our prior precedent into doubt. so, the seventh circuit has a rule called circuit rule 40e and when we conclude as a full-court you circulated opinion to the full court to say i think our president should be overruled because it had fallen out of step with later developments in the supreme court. i circulated that precedent, the opinion pursuant to 40e, and the full court agreed and we overruled precedent. sen. crapo: the way i would summarize that is the court, with