Court Opinion

ID: 9552250
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 19:07:10.119491+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:25:57.544633
License: Public Domain

BUSSEY, Presiding Judge,
Dissenting to Order Denying Petition for Rehearing.
I must dissent from the Order Denying Petition for Rehearing in the above styled and numbered cause, and express my shock that my two colleagues, realizing that I was on vacation and returning today, would summarily act on a Petition for Rehearing upon which oral argument had been set for March 23, 1971, without consulting me.
I recognize the authority of the majority of the Court to determine the law to be followed in Oklahoma, reserving the right to dissent from the action of the majority in those cases in which I cannot, in good conscience, concur. Since the issues presented in the instant case are of great magnitude that effect substantially the administration of criminal justice in Oklahoma, and since the original opinion was delivered without briefs, I am of the opinion that oral argument would have been of great benefit to the Court in determining whether the original opinion should stand as written, or whether, as I view it, the opposite result should have been reached. I reiterate my dissent to the opinion as originally written and repudiate the majority opinion in its entirety.