Court Opinion

ID: 9615859
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 04:41:17.631915+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:03:52.661123
License: Public Domain

OPALA, Justice,
with whom HODGES and HARGRAVE, JJ., join, concurring in judgment.
While I join the court’s dismissal of this appeal for mootness, I must recede from its gratuitous comments on the clouded behavior of functionaries whose past official actions escape today our adjudicative scrutiny. Judicial institutions do not remain true to their constitutionally-mandated posture of absolute detachment and neutrality when they cast themselves, however slightly, obliquely or inadvertently, in the role of enforcers. The responsibility for generating a community climate favorable to charging public officers with disciplinary, civil or criminal transgressions is not reposed in this court.