State v. Fain

On the motion of defense counsel my involvement on this aged appeal commenced in December of 1987. Prior to that I had no connection with the case. The Court having brought me into the case, I became acquainted with prior proceedings by reading briefs, listening to taped argument, examining the record, and then sat with the Court at a second oral argument in February 1988, three years after the first oral argument was presented. Justice Huntley’s prefatory remarks explain the delay. I am not sufficiently informed as to the suspension of the appeal other than by the statement that it was “to…