Court Opinion

ID: 9656057
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 19:32:57.298529+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T10:25:42.451013
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MURDOCK, Justice
(dissenting).
As it relates to the facts of this case, Justice Bolin’s special writing raises sever*686al serious concerns. In my view, these concerns are well stated and, more importantly, meritorious. Unlike Justice Bolin, however, I do not find it necessary to decide how to react to these concerns in this particular case. This is so because I am persuaded by what the main opinion, itself, concedes to be “valid points” raised by Judge Cole in his dissenting opinion in Van Hook v. Anderson, 488 F.3d 411, 428 (6th Cir.2007), points with which 7 of the 15 judges of the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit agreed. See also Van Hook, 488 F.3d at 437 (Merritt, J., dissenting) (joined by five judges); and Van Hook, 488 F.3d at 440 (Martin, J., dissenting). I therefore respectfully dissent.