Court Opinion

ID: 9749729
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-27 17:00:28.273982+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:25:56.649369
License: Public Domain

McDERMOTT, Justice,
dissenting.
I dissent.
Stripped to its essentials, the majority holds or seems to hold that, had the police brought the complainant to the suspects and not the suspects to the complainant, the result would be different. See at 980. The distance travelled in either instance was at most a block and a half. That a block *678and a half might swallow the “Terry exception” is the type of finicky preciousness that has solidified our reputation for unreality.1
I would affirm the order of the Superior Court.2

. See Terry vs Ohio, 392 U.S. 1, 88 S.Ct. 1868, 20 L.Ed.2d 889 (1968).

. I note in passing that appellant will be unable to enjoy the largesse of the Court in awarding him a new trial because he died nearly two years prior to the argument in this case. That appellant’s counsel never bothered to inform the Court of this fact, demonstrates either a cynical disregard for the client’s participation in the appeal process or a shocking attempt to deceive this Court. In either event, counsel’s failure to notify the Court of appellant’s death brings to light a sinister and rapidly expanding side of the criminal justice system, in which lawyers parade about and argue and delay for their own benefit, while truth and fairness, and even the clients’ interests, are forgotten.