State v. Blanton

I respectfully dissent from the quashing of this writ. First, although I believe that the denial of the petition as proeedurally insufficient would be correct for the reasons I will explain in this dissent, I believe that an opinion by this Court discussing those reasons would have been appropriate under this Court’s rule-making authority. Second, I believe that an opinion by this Court would also have been appropriate to address the denial of the underlying petition for a writ of mandamus by the Court of Criminal Appeals, because I believe that the Court of Criminal Appeals did not have…