# State v. Rollins

> Tennessee Supreme Court · March 16, 2006 · 188 S.W.3d 553

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9523140

## Case

- **Full name:** STATE of Tennessee v. Steven James ROLLINS
- **Court:** Tennessee Supreme Court
- **Decided:** March 16, 2006
- **Citations:** 188 S.W.3d 553; 2006 Tenn. LEXIS 191; 2006 WL 647780
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurring in part by Birch
- **Judges:** Chief Justice William M. Barker
- **Cited by:** 42 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- noting that a witness’s invocation of his or her Fifth Amendment privilege in the presence of the jury may have “a disproportionate impact on [the jury’s] deliberations”

## Opinion text

*578 ADOLPHO A. BIRCH, JR., J.,
concurring in part and dissenting in part.
I concur in the conclusion of the majority that Rollins’ 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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