Court Opinion

ID: 9767267
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 05:14:43.547378+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:30:29.935644
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FLAHERTY, Justice,
dissenting.
I dissent. Although appellant notified the assistant court administrator, he failed to seek permission from the President Judge in this instance. Indeed, the appellant did nothing other than notify an assistant court administrator that he would be absent In my view, at least an effort should have been made to present appellant’s alleged conflict to the judge responsible for the trial list. It is not an exaggeration to contemplate our trial scheduling system collapsing, if it is permissible for an attorney to merely notify a clerk that he will be absent when required to appear — and do so with impunity, as is the precedent which the majority would set.
McDERMOTT, J., joins this dissenting opinion.