Writ granted. (Note to reporter: Look up *concur*) April 8, 2008
Posted by Idta in : Criminal Law , trackback
Recently, the Court of Criminal Appeals granted a writ and overturned the wrongful conviction of one of my clients. That was a wonderful result, and it was heartening that all of the justices who participated in the decision agreed with us.
BUT, the Associated Press mis-reported the decision as “5 to 3″ when it was really 8 to 0: Five justices signed the majority opinion, and the other three concurred. (One justice didn’t participate.) Contrary to what the newspaper reports suggested, it wasn’t a close decision at all, and there wasn’t any dissent.
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