State v. Bell

CRICHTON, J.,

additionally concurs and assigns reasons:

I agree in all respects with denial of this capital defendant’s writ application and write separately to emphasize the brutality of Bell’s murders of five church-goers and what strikes me as an inordinate delay in the State post-conviction process.

Anthony Bell publically asked his recently estranged wife, Erica, to reunite with him before the congregation of the small family church led by Erica’s mother, Pastor Claudia Brown. She rebuffed him. Bell, who had a history of responding violently to rejection, became agitated, walked outside,…