State of Tennessee v. William Glenn Rogers - Concurring and Dissenting ( 2006 )

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF TENNESSEE
AT NASHVILLE
October 5, 2005 Session
STATE OF TENNESSEE v. WILLIAM GLENN ROGERS
Automatic Appeal from the Court of Criminal Appeals
Circuit Court for Montgomery County
No. 38939 Robert W. Wedemeyer, Judge
No. M2002-01798-SC-DDT-DD - Filed February 17, 2006
ADOLPHO A. BIRCH, JR., J., concurring in part and dissenting in part.
I concur in the conclusion of the majority that Rogers’ convictions should be affirmed. As to the
sentence of death, however, I respectfully dissent. I continue to adhere to my view that the
comparative proportionality review protocol currently embraced by the majority is inadequate to
shield defendants from the arbitrary and disproportionate imposition of the death penalty. See State
v. Reid, 164 S.W.3d 286, 323-325 (Tenn. 2005)(Birch, J., concurring and dissenting), and cases cited
therein. Accordingly, I respectfully dissent from that portion of the majority opinion affirming the
imposition of the death penalty in this case.
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ADOLPHO A. BIRCH, JR.