Court Opinion

ID: 9543628
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 16:47:13.621979+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:10:43.573814
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T. M. Burns, J.
(concurring). I concur in the result reached and write only to criticize the unseemly haste with which plaintiff was taken from this state on January 25, 1980. At the very time that plaintiff was in the process of invoking the jurisdiction of this Court and of the Federal District Court and seeking relief through habeas corpus proceedings, plaintiff was taken by law enforce*36ment authorities and rushed from the jurisdiction of these tribunals. There is nothing in the record that would justify the efforts of these officials to hasten plaintiff from this state before this Court or the Federal District Court could intervene. Plaintiffs only failing in this regard was that, despite his attempt to do so, he could not invoke the jurisdiction of these tribunals quickly enough.
Our system of criminal justice is not a game. It is a process by which those rights and liberties that we hold dear are insured and safeguarded against unwarranted state intrusion. Any action by a segment of our law enforcement system that calls into question its own integrity and good faith will in turn demean the integrity and good faith of the entire system. There is no reason why plaintiffs departure from this state could not have been delayed for a reasonable length of time so that he could have presented his arguments to this Court or to the Federal District Court.
In order to insure that persons such as plaintiff are given a reasonable opportunity for review of a lower court order dissolving a writ of habeas corpus and permitting a prisoner to be extradited to another state, I would encourage the Supreme Court to examine the wisdom of not permitting the automatic stay provisions of GCR 1963, 530.1 to apply to orders in cases such as the instant one. See, GCR 1963, 710.9.