OPINION A. JOHNSON, Presiding Judge. 1 Appellant Gilbert Ray Postelle was tried by jury and convicted in the District Court of Oklahoma County, Case No. CF-2005-4759, of four counts of First Degree Murder (Counts 1-4), in violation of 21 O.S.Supp.2004, 701.7, and one count of Conspiracy to Commit a Felony (Count 5), in violation of 21 O.S.2001 421. 1 The jury imposed the death penalty on Counts 1 and 4 after finding that Postelle created a great risk of death to more than one person...
OPINION SMITH, JUDGE: 1 James A. Coddington was tried by jury and convicted of Murder in the First Degree in violation of 21 O.S.1991, 701.7, in the District Court of Oklahoma County, Case No. CF-97-1500. In accordance with the jury's recommendation, the Honorable Jerry D. Bass imposed a sentence of death. This Court affirmed Coddington's conviction, but reversed the sentence, and remanded the case for resentencing. Coddington v. State, 2006 OK CR 34, 142 P.3d 437 . A resentencing...
SUMMARY OPINION A. JOHNSON, Presiding Judge. 1 Appellant Susan Rollans Pryor was tried by jury in the District Court of Tulsa Count, Case No. CF-2008-691, and found guilty of First Degree Manslaughter in violation of 21 O.S.2001, 711(2). 1 The jury recommended fifteen years imprisonment and the Honorable Tom C. Gillert, who presided at trial, sentenced Pryor accordingly. From this Judgment and Sentence, Pryor appeals. 2 Pryor's claim in her first proposition— that she was denied a...
OPINION SMITH, Judge. 1 James A. Coddington was tried by jury and convicted of Murder in the First Degree in violation of 21 O.S.1991, 701.7, in the District Court of Oklahoma County, Case No. CF-97-1500. In accordance with the jury's recommendation, the Honorable Jerry D. Bass imposed a sentence of death. This Court affirmed Coddington's conviction, but reversed the sentence, and remanded the case for resentencing. Coddington v. State, 2006 OK CR 34, 142 P.3d 437 . A resentencing...
OPINION SMITH, Judge. 1 Roderick Earsel Webster was tried by jury and convicted of First-Degree Murder, under 21 O.S.Supp.1988, 701.7(A), in Oklahoma County, Case No. CF-2007-7326. In accord with the jury's recommendation, the Honorable Virgil Black, District Judge, sentenced Webster to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Webster appeals his conviction and is properly before this Court. FACTS 2 Shortly before midnight on the night of March 22, 1989, police were...
SUMMARY OPINION LEWIS, Judge. 1 Gregory Eugene Jones, Appellant, was tried by jury and found guilty of Counts 1 and 2, child sexual abuse, in violation of 10 O.S.Supp.2008, 7115(E); after former conviction of two (2) or more felonies, in the District Court of Creek County, Case Number CF-2009-89. The jury sentenced Appellant to twelve (12) years imprisonment in each count. The Honorable Joe Sam Vassar, District Judge, pronounced judgment and sentence accordingly, ordering the sentences...
OPINION LEWIS, Judge. 1 Wendell Arden Grissom, Appellant, was tried by jury and found guilty of Count 1, murder in the first degree, in violation of 21 O.S.Rev.Supp.2005, 701.7(A); Count 2, shooting with intent to kill, in violation of 21 O.S.Rev.Supp.2005, 652(A); Count 3, grand larceny, in violation of 21 O.S.2001, 1705; and Count 4, possession of a firearm after former conviction of a felony, in violation of 21 O.S.Rev.Supp.2005, 1283, in Blaine County District Court, Case No....
OPINION C. JOHNSON, Judge. 1 Appellant, Kevin Ray Underwood, was charged in McClain County District Court (Case No. CF2006-102) with First Degree Murder (21 O.S.Supp.2004, 701.7(A)). The State alleged three aggravating circumstances in support of the death penalty. The district court granted Appellant's request for a change of venue, and the case was transferred from McClain County to Cleveland County (Case No. CF-2007-513). Jury trial was held February 19 through March 7, 2008 before the...
SUMMARY OPINION LUMPKIN, Judge. 1 Appellant, Brian Hayden Harney, was tried by jury and convicted of Driving a Motor Vehicle While Under the Influence of Alcohol, a felony, (47 O.S.Supp.2006, 11-902(A)(2)) in the District Court of Nowata County, Case Number CF-2008-85 and Driving With License Revoked (47 O.S.Supp.2007, 6-303) in the District Court of Nowata County, Case Number CM-2008-199. The jury recommended as punishment imprisonment for five (5) years and a fine in the amount of $2,...