Court Opinion

ID: 9610367
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 03:40:10.915707+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:47:37.090885
License: Public Domain

CARDINE, Justice,
specially concurring.
I concur in the opinion of the court and add the following observation.
*272This case presents a vivid picture of much that is wrong with our criminal justice system. We have a defendant who brutally, senselessly, cruelly and savagely beat, strangled, stabbed and raped; he left two persons dead, one seriously injured. He admits ordering the murders to “leave no witnesses.” He has, under oath, confessed to the crimes twice in open court. Yet here we are, the case entering its ninth year with the court, still struggling toward a disposition of Mr. Osborn’s case. This sad saga of multiple hearings, trials and courts involved should be required reading for legal scholars studying and writing about what can be done to improve the criminal justice system. At this time it can be found again on another journey through the federal court system.