Court Opinion

ID: 9724129
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 10:45:32.622002+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:24:56.262400
License: Public Domain

HENDERSON, Justice
(dissenting).
Although the procedural history is set forth, there is not one fact — not one fact — set forth in this opinion. The only facts, which can be inferred to support this opinion, are found in the second sentence of the FACTS, which begins with “According to the Complaint.” This is an allegation only.
State sets forth three and one-half pages of FACTS.
Petersen’s brief contains three and one-third pages of FACTS.
Based upon both of said factual recitations, Petersen’s counsel presented nine ISSUES with a 34-page brief. State answered with nine ISSUES, fully briefed, consisting of 30 pages of briefing.
A reader of this opinion, who has not had the benefit of reading the extensive record or these briefs, will never know what this ease is all about. How does the Bar and Bench adequately weigh the competing theories when there are no facts whatsoever set forth? The answer is: They cannot.
One cannot reflect, weigh, consider, determine, refute or agree with the rationale of a decision where same is written (factually) in vacuo.
Protesting this type of academia, where no facts of legal import are shared with the reader, thereby prohibiting a connected system of thought and law declaring a justified meaning, I dissent.