Opinion

Thompson v. State

  • 724 P.2d 780
  • 1986 OK CR 130
  • 1986 Okla. Crim. App. LEXIS 318
Court
Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma
Filed
Aug 29, 1986
Status
Published
Author
Parks
On the bench
Brett, Parks, Bussey
Cited by
33 cases
Authority
More cited than 5.7%

Reversed by Thompson v. Oklahoma, 487 U.S. 815 (1988)

defendant was 15 years old at time of crime

How later courts described this case

  • defendant was 15 years old at time of crime
  • defendant 15-years-old at time of murders

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

PARKS, Presiding Judge,

specially concurring:

I agree with all that my brother Judge Brett has stated in this opinion. However, I write separately to consider whether the sentence of death in this case “is excessive or disproportionate ..., considering both the crime and defendant.” This consideration is missing from the Court’s opinion. 21 O.S.1981, § 701.13(C). Although our Legislature has revised this statute somewhat in 1985 Okla.Sess.Laws, Ch. 265, now codified at 21 O.S.Supp.1985, § 701.13, I believe application of this revision to cases pending on appeal at the time the law was enacted would render the new provision an ex post facto law. See Green v. State, 713 P.2d 1032 , 1041 n. 4 (Okl.Cr.1985). Nevertheless, I have personally compared the *787 sentence imposed herein with those previous cases either affirmed 1 or modified 2 by this Court, and find the sentence to be proper.

. Ross v. State, 717 P.2d 117 (Okl.Cr.1986); Foster v. State, 714 P.2d 1031 (Okl.Cr.1986); Green v. State, 713 P.2d 1032 (Okl.Cr.1986); Liles v. State, 702 P.2d 1025 (Okl.Cr.1985); Cooks v. State, 699 P.2d 653 (Okl.Cr.1985); Banks v. State, 201 P.2d 418 (Okl.Cr.1985); Cartwright v. State, 695 P.2d 548 (Okl.Cr.1985); Brogie v. State, 695 P.2d 538 (Okl.Cr.1985); Bowen v. State, 715 P.2d 1093 , 55 O.B.J. 2520 (Okl.Cr.1984); Stout v. State, 693 P.2d 617 (Okl.Cr.1984); and Nuckols v. State, 690 P.2d 463 (Okl.Cr.1984); Robison v. State, 677 P.2d 1080 (Okl.Cr.1984); Dutton v. State, 674 P.2d 1134 (Okl.Cr.1984); Stafford v. State, 669 P.2d 285 (Okl.Cr.1983); Coleman v. State, 668 P.2d 1126 (Okl.Cr.1983); Stafford v. State, 665 P.2d 1205 (Okl.Cr.1983): Davis v. State, 665 P.2d 1186 (Okl.Cr.1983); Ake v. State, 663 P.2d 1 (Okl.Cr.1983); Parks v. State, 651 P.2d 686 (Okl.Cr.1982): Jones v. State, 648 P.2d 1251 (Okl.Cr. 1982); Hays v. State, 617 P.2d 223 (Okl.Cr.1980); and Chaney v. State, 612 P.2d 269 (Okl.Cr.1980), modified on other grounds, sub. nom., Chaney v. Brown, 730 F.2d 1334 (10th Cir.1984).

. Green v. State, 713 P.2d 1032 (Okl.Cr.1985); Eddings v. State, 616 P.2d 1159 (Okl.Cr.1980); as modified, 688 P.2d 342 (Okl.Cr.1984); Mo rgan v. State, No. F-79-487 (Okl.Cr. Nov. 14, 1983) (Unpublished); Johnson v. State, 665 P.2d 815 (Okl.Cr.1982); Glidewell v. State, 663 P.2d 738 (Okl.Cr.1983); Jones v. State, 660 P.2d 634 (Okl.Cr.1983); Driskell v. State, 659 P.2d 343 (Okl.Cr.1983); Boutwell v. State, 659 P.2d 322 (Okl.Cr.1983); Munn v. State, 658 P.2d 482 (Okl.Cr.1983); Odum v. State, 651 P.2d 703 (Okl.Cr.1982); Burrows v. State, 640 P.2d 533 (Okl.Cr.1982); Franks v. State, 636 P.2d 361 (Okl.Cr.1981); Irvin v. State, 617 P.2d 588 (Okl.Cr.1980).

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