# Ledbetter v. State

> Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · February 21, 1997 · 933 P.2d 880

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9608213

## Case

- **Full name:** Andrew Thomas LEDBETTER, Appellant, v. the STATE of Oklahoma, Appellee
- **Court:** Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma
- **Decided:** February 21, 1997
- **Citations:** 933 P.2d 880; 1997 OK CR 5; 1997 Okla. Crim. App. LEXIS 4; 1997 WL 74514
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Strubhar
- **Judges:** Lumpkin, Chapel, Johnson, Strubhar, Lane
- **Cited by:** 71 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- No negative treatment found by the automated citator. That is not the same as a confirmation that the case is good law; read the citing cases.
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9608213

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- noting that hearsay statements outside of recognized exceptions are "just as inadmissible in a victim impact statement as [they are] in any other form of evidence presented at trial"
- recognizing Oklahoma's legislative authorization of victim sentencing recommendations and finding no general constitutional ban to such testimony

## Opinion text

STRUBHAR, Vice Presiding Judge,
concurring in result:
I concur in result and join with Judge Lane in his Opinion.

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