21.   Judges Vito Titone, George Bundy Smith and Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick bitterly contested the majority decision, saying the governor had overstepped his authority.

22.   Judge Sue Holland wrote a separate dissent to the majority decision.

23.   Justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, and Clarence Thomas filed dissenting opinions and were joined by Chief Justice William Rehnquist in opposing the majority decision.

24.   Justice John Paul Stevens wrote the majority decision, and Chief Justice William Rehnquist wrote the dissent.

25.   Justice Robert J. Callahan wrote in the majority decision that Lapointe understood what he was doing when he confessed to the crime and that he made the statements voluntarily.

26.   Refusing to be relegated to writing frustrated dissents, the justice wrote a significant number of majority decisions, sometimes siding with conservatives on criminal issues.

27.   Since winning a lackluster majority decision over Vaughn Bean last March, Moorer has hired Freddie Roach as his trainer to replace Teddy Atlas.

28.   Somehow, the judges interpreted this as a majority decision for the Mexican.

29.   Still, Martin was awarded a majority decision.

30.   That goes beyond the text of the accord, which makes no mention of a vote or a majority decision.