# Lewis v. State

> Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · February 3, 1999 · 970 P.2d 1158

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9590749

## Case

- **Full name:** Napoleon LEWIS, Appellant, v. STATE of Oklahoma, Appellee
- **Court:** Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma
- **Decided:** February 3, 1999
- **Citations:** 970 P.2d 1158; 1998 OK CR 24; 1998 WL 172825
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Lumpkin
- **Judges:** Strubhar, Chapel, Lane, Johnson, Lumpkin
- **Cited by:** 51 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding the defendant had a reasonable opportunity for passion to cool where defendant’s realization that victim was involved with other men did not occur in close time proximity to rage spurring his actions
- finding defendant had reasonable opportunity to cool down between learning of victim’s infidelity to him and murder of victim

## Opinion text

LUMPKIN, Judge,
specially concur.
¶ 1 I concur in the Court’s excellent opinion affirming the judgment and sentence in this case.
¶ 2 However, it should be noted the criteria set out in Strickland v. Washington, 466 *1177 U.S. 668 , 104 S.Ct. 2052 , 80 L.Ed.2d 674 (1984), for evaluating effectiveness of counsel has been further explained in Lockhart v. Fretwell, 506 U.S. 364 , 113 S.Ct. 838 , 122 L.Ed.2d 180 (1993). Applying the Lockhart standard, the record is void of any evidence the trial was rendered unfair and the verdict rendered suspect or unreliable.

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