How can no Justice vote to dissent?

[Joe the Revelator]

What is wrong with this Country right now? How can we rely in a system, where, in the face of extreme doubt, not even ONE SC Justice could vote to with hold the idea that you have to be proven guilty beyond a resonable doubt....

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. I don't understand it either. They aren't all RW extremists. How can not even one stand up

for Justice?

[Joe the Revelator]

3. Its the most unbelievable thing in a year full of unbelievable things

[NaturalHigh]

2. Legally, the case for the Supreme Court was pretty cut and dried.

All the points of law have already been reviewed. Regardless of one's opinion about Troy Davis, I'm not sure the justices had a lot of wiggle room here.

[TheWraith]

10. Yeah, pretty much. The appeal for a stay is based on legal argument, not subjective merit.

Basically, if you don't have a NEW legal argument, new evidence, etcetera, then it's nearly impossible to get a stay.

[EFerrari]

4. Corrupt up to their eyeballs. n/t

[Parker CA]

5. I don't get it either, but Jeremy Scahill was on Ed and saying that it was because of the

way very literal way they likely interpreted the constitution and that they couldn't really infringe on a state's rights. He was speaking very fast and was clearly strongly emotional, so I didn't catch everything, but I believe that is the gist of the reason he gave.

[Joe the Revelator]

7. All it takes it just one person to write a few paragraphs as a dissenting voter....just out of

principal.

[NRaleighLiberal]

6. Our trip down the moral and cultural drain will only accelerate. we are lost as a country.

[Ian David]

8. ACLU was saying at least one justice dissented. n/t

[BzaDem]

9. We have NO IDEA whether anywhere between one and four justices voted to dissent.

We just know that it was not noted and they didn't include a separate opinion.

There are plenty of orders with no noted dissent even though it is obvious that all four liberals dissented. In this case, there won't be any further proceedings with the case, so we will never know.