Opinion

Brewer v. State

  • 718 P.2d 354
  • 1986 OK CR 55
  • 1986 Okla. Crim. App. LEXIS 246
Court
Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma
Filed
Apr 18, 1986
Status
Published
Author
Bussey
On the bench
Brett, Bussey, Parks
Cited by
51 cases

Overruled on other grounds by Fitzgerald v. State, 69 O.B.A.J. 4307 (1998)

holding aggravating circumstances are only duplica-tive when they cover the same aspect of the defendant’s criminal history

How later courts described this case

  • holding aggravating circumstances are only duplica-tive when they cover the same aspect of the defendant’s criminal history

Written by the judges who cited it.

Later courts went against this

  • Overruled on other grounds by Fitzgerald v. State, 69 O.B.A.J. 4307 (1998)

    See, eg., Brewer v. State, 1986 OK CR 55, ¶¶ 3-6, 718 P.2d 354, 359, overruled on other grounds by Fitzgerald v. State, 1998 OK CR 68, ¶ 28 n. 43, 972 P.2d 1157, 1169 n. 43; Napier v. State, 1991 OK CR 120, ¶¶ 8-11, 821 P.2d 1062, 1064-65; McCarty v. State, 1995 OK CR 48, ¶¶ 59-60, 904 P.2d 110, 126-27.
    Court of Criminal Appeals of OklahomaDec 10, 1998other groundsmedium confidenceRead it

The opinion

BUSSEY, Judge,

specially concurring:

Finding that the evidence overwhelmingly supports the judgment and sentence of death, and that the record is free of any error requiring modification or reversal, I concur.

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