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There were two other opinions. District Judge Lewis Springer, specially assigned to sit on the court for this case due to a vacant seat, concurred but said the majority opinion should have more thoroughly grounded its arguments in the state's constitutional history rather than the federal constitution.<ref name="Kirchoff 997–99">''Kirchoff'', 997–99</ref> [[Louis P. Peck]], in one of his last opinions before retirement, dissented at length, attacking and ridiculing the majority for [[judicial activism]] in an opinion rife with cultural and literary references.<ref name="Kirchoff 999–1008">''Kirchoff'', 999–1008</ref>
====Dissent====
"I am sadly disappointed, and frustrated beyond comfort", by the majority opinion, Peck began. He likened it to a brief for the defendant in the case. "[I]t is, in my judgment, one of the most result-oriented opinions I have ever been exposed to. I am not prepared to countenance in silence the extreme and unwarranted judicial activism of which the opinion is an example."<ref name="Kirchoff 999–1008" />
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