In re Hooker

CARLSON, Presiding Justice,

specially concurring:

¶ 61. While I wholeheartedly concur with the majority opinion, I am compelled to write in response to the separate opinions in this case. Let me first state that there is a division on this Court in this case because there is a disagreement as to the identification of the critical issue confronting this Court today. In my opinion, Presiding Justice Dickinson succinctly states the issue before us in paragraph four of his majority opinion: “[T]he controlling issue is not whether Section 124 requires applicants for pardons to publish notice — it…