Court Opinion

ID: 9654702
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 18:47:47.516911+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:43:53.352315
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DONNELLY, Judge,
dissenting.
In State v. Brizendine, 445 S.W.2d 827 (Mo. banc 1969), the majority of this Court noted 28 U.S.C. 2254 (the Federal Habeas Corpus Act) and advised the people of Missouri that its effect is to make this Court subservient to all courts of the United States in cases involving violations of the criminal laws of Missouri.
Since Brizendine, and despite persistent urging after publication of Alexander M. Bickel’s The Morality of Consent in 1975, the majority of this Court has refused to repudiate the arrogations of Cooper v. Aaron, 358 U.S. 1, 78 S.Ct. 1401, 3 L.Ed.2d 5, 19 (1958).
In this circumstance of self-imposed impotence, this Court, in criminal cases where violations of the United States Constitution are alleged, should withdraw from consideration of such cases until review by federal courts of such issues has been exhausted.
In any event, the posturing in this case reference Grigsby serves no useful purpose.
I respectfully dissent.