Court Opinion

ID: 9580883
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 22:09:53.331179+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:36:34.989965
License: Public Domain

Justice BEATTY
(concurring in part and dissenting in part).
I concur in part and dissent in part. I concur with the majority in affirming the Court of Appeals’ upholding of Frazier’s conviction for murder. However, I dissent in the majority’s decision to reverse the Court of Appeals as to the armed robbery conviction.
In my view, the Court of Appeals was correct in reversing the armed robbery conviction. There is no evidence that a robbery took place, or that if it did that the defendant committed it. At best, the evidence in this case merely raises a weak suspicion that a robbery occurred.
The evidence showed that: the victim’s gold ring was found near his body; victim had fifty dollars in his pocket; victim’s wallet was found with its contents intact weeks later, in a location blocks away from the murder scene; there is no evidence that the victim had the wallet at the time of the murder; and there is no evidence that anything was taken from the victim.
I would dismiss certiorari as improvidently granted.
PLEICONES, J., concurs.