State v. Brown

WEISBERGER, Chief Justice,

with whom Justice SHEA (Ret.) joins, dissenting.

In dissenting I respectfully point out that the history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards. McNabb v. United States, 318 U.S. *482332, 347, 63 S.Ct. 608, 616, 87 L.Ed. 819, 827-28 (1943) (Frankfurter, J.). I recognize that the defendant in this case, Danny L. Brown (Brown), was accused of a heinous crime. After conviction he was sentenced to a term of forty years’ imprisonment on each of the six counts charged. It is of paramount importance that a person accused of such a…