Court Opinion

ID: 9704394
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 00:34:08.66502+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:22:01.848825
License: Public Domain

M. J. Kelly, P. J.
(concurring). I think the critical question on the Crittle issue is the failure to object. Crittle was written in November of 1973 and this trial took place in February of 1974. It is *680one thing to say that the Crittle error constituted manifest injustice and required reversal without an objection. It is quite another thing to say that a later case involving the same error mandates reversal. That would require the assumption that the defense attorney, the prosecutor and the trial judge did not read the Supreme Court advance sheets and were not bound by its released decisions. One can ponder the public’s reaction to such an appellate court holding in the beleaguered criminal justice system. We should not provide such an appellate parachute.
I concur in the per curiam opinion.