Court Opinion

ID: 9660615
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 22:16:53.687494+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:14:20.935152
License: Public Domain

Steele Hays, Justice, concurring. I expressed my views on the use of masters in a dissenting opinion in Hutton v. Savage, 298 Ark. 256, 769 S.W.2d 394 (1989). I was a minority of one in that position and since the majority view was decisive I saw no need to restate it in Collins v. State, 298 Ark. 380, 769 S.W.2d 402 (1989), decided this week. Now the majority position is further solidified in the decision of these consolidated cases and while I have not changed my view, I see nothing to be gained by continuing to espouse a position that has no likelihood of prevailing. On that basis, and the fact that given the approach taken by the majority the petitioner is entitled to the relief sought, I concur.