# State v. Lynch

> Supreme Court of Oklahoma · July 24, 1990 · 61 O.B.A.J. 2102

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9845784

## Case

- **Full name:** The STATE of Oklahoma, Appellant, v. Delbert LYNCH, Appellee
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Oklahoma
- **Decided:** July 24, 1990
- **Citations:** 61 O.B.A.J. 2102; 796 P.2d 1150; 1990 OK 82; 1990 Okla. LEXIS 88; 1990 WL 103246
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Doolin
- **Judges:** Kauger, Hargrave, Hodges, Lavender, Wilson, Summers, Opala, Simms, Doolin
- **Cited by:** 42 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- reasoning that the Oklahoma Supreme Court’s “constitutional responsibilities” and “inherent power” compelled the con- elusion that the practice of compulsory appointment of attorneys without providing adequate compensation amounted to an unconstitutional taking of private prop…

## Opinion text

DOOLIN, Justice,
dissenting.
The present traditional method of compensation and appointment of competent counsel to represent indigent defendants has worked well and existed in the British Colonial system when John Adams represented the British Troops who perpetrated the Boston Massacre, not to mention the example of Abe Fortas when he sounded Gideon’s trumpet in “Modern Times”, j dissent

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