State v. Preston Carter
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Opinion
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF TENNESSEE AT JACKSON April 8, 2003 Session
STATE OF TENNESSEE v. PRESTON CARTER
Automatic Appeal from the Court of Criminal Appeals Criminal Court for Shelby County No. 93-09760 and 93-09761 Jon Kerry Blackwood, Judge
No. W2000-02204-SC-DDT-DD - Filed September 18, 2003
ADOLPHO A. BIRCH, JR., J., dissenting.
I continue to adhere to the views expressed in a long line of dissents beginning with State v. Chalmers, 28 S.W.3d 913, 923-25 (Tenn. 2000) (Birch, Jr., J., concurring and dissenting), and elaborated upon in State v. Godsey, 60 S.W.3d 759, 793-800 (Tenn. 2001) (Birch, Jr., J., concurring and dissenting), expressing my view that the comparative proportionality review protocol currently embraced by the majority is inadequate to insulate defendants from the arbitrary and disproportionate imposition of the death penalty. See Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-13-206(C) (1997). Accordingly, I cannot, for the reasons stated in my previous dissents, concur in the imposition of the death penalty in this case.
_______________________________ ADOLPHO A. BIRCH, JR., JUSTICE
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