State v. Brown

These cases involve attempts by three defendants to gain suspended sentences conditioned upon their completion of surgical castration. Petitioner Roscoe James Brown moves for the issuance of a writ of mandamus to compel the execution of the suspended sentence. Appellants Michael Braxton and Mark Vaughn seek dismissal of their appeals so that they too may have their suspended sentences carried out. At oral argument, counsel for all three defendants conceded that our disposition of these cases should be the same as to all of them. We hold that the suspension of the sentences conditioned upon…