Legal Opinion
Hanson v. Sherrod
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided August 13, 2015No. 13-5100PublishedCited by 82 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge.
This appeal arises out of the murders of Jerald Thurman and Mary Bowles in Tulsa, Oklahoma. At trial, a jury convicted defendant John Hanson for the murder of Mary Bowles with malice aforethought and for the felony murder of Thurman. At the penalty phase, the jury found three aggravating circumstances related to Bowles’s murder. Upon the jury’s verdict, the trial court sentenced Hanson to death. See Okla. St. tit. 22, § 1007 (2015).
On direct appeal, the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals (“OCCA”) reversed Hanson’s death sentence and remanded for a new sentencing…
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