Court Opinion

ID: 9577926
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 21:39:29.584049+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:21:30.870460
License: Public Domain

*627SHIRLEY S. ABRAHAMSON, J.
(dissenting). If I •were a lawyer practicing in this state or a circuit or court of appeals judge, I would not rely on this case as a guidepost for determining what is reasonable diligence to effect personal service. We should have never accepted review of this case. It does not fit within our criteria. The case involves the application of settled law to an unsettling case.
This case is better understood if the reader is aware of the following information in the court file:
“Jeffery Emery is facing a murder charge in the State of Texas punishable by death. Deborah Emery is the State’s key witness against Jeffery Emery with regard to the pending murder charge. If the Judgment of Divorce is declared void, then, pursuant to an exclusionary rule of evidence under Texas law Deborah Emery could not testify. Society as a whole would be jeopardized if the State of Texas is not allowed to present its best evidence, the testimony of Deborah Emery, against Jeffery Emery.” Deborah Emery’s petition to this court to review the decision of the court of appeals, p. 6.