State of Tennessee v. Leonard J. Young - Concurring and Dissenting
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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF TENNESSEE AT JACKSON April 5, 2006 Session
STATE OF TENNESSEE v. LEONARD J. YOUNG
Automatic Appeal from the Court of Criminal Appeals Criminal Court for Shelby County Nos. 00-04017, 00-04018, 00-04019 Joseph B. Dailey, Presiding Judge; Jon Kerry Blackwood, Special Judge
No. W2002-03012-SC-DDT-DD - Filed on June 30, 2006
ADOLPHO A. BIRCH, JR., J., concurring in part and dissenting in part.
I concur in the conclusion of the majority that Young's convictions should be affirmed. As to the sentence of death, however, I respectfully dissent. I continue to adhere to my view that the comparative proportionality review protocol currently embraced by the majority is inadequate to shield defendants from the arbitrary and disproportionate imposition of the death penalty. See State v. Reid, 164 S.W.3d 286, 323-325 (Tenn. 2005)(Birch, J., concurring and dissenting), and cases cited therein. Accordingly, I respectfully dissent from that portion of the majority opinion affirming the imposition of the death penalty in this case.
_______________________________ ADOLPHO A. BIRCH, JR.
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