Court Opinion

ID: 9692179
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-25 15:45:53.593249+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:19:32.604913
License: Public Domain

DRANGINIS, J.,
concurring. I agree with the majority that the plaintiff in error, the office of the chief public defender of the state of Connecticut, cannot participate as next friend of the defendant, Michael B. Ross, or as amicus curiae in postconviction proceedings in the cases against the defendant. I also fully agree, however, with Justice Norcott that the pending consolidated habeas corpus litigation regarding the influence of race in the application of our death penalty statute raises the prospect that the imminent imposition of the death penalty in this case will be revealed, in the foreseeable *617future, as having resulted from a fundamentally flawed system. I concur separately only because, unlike Justice Norcott, I do not believe the death penalty to be unconstitutional in all situations.