Legal Opinion

Brecheen v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma

Decided January 27, 1987No. F-83-710PublishedCited by 38 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

BUSSEY, Judge:

Robert A. Brecheen was convicted by a jury of Murder in the First Degree and Burglary in the First Degree. Punishment was assessed as the death penalty for the homicide and twenty years’ imprisonment for the burglary.

During the evening of March 27, 1983, Hilton Stubbs was awakened by the scream of his wife, Marie Stubbs, and then he immediately heard a gunshot. He saw his wife, who was in the livingroom, fall to the floor. He reached for his gun and rolled off of his bed to the floor. The intruder came to the bedroom door and fired three shots into the empty bed. As the…

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2Cases cited40 opinions

  1. Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  2. Brady v. MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
  3. Gregg v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
  4. United States v. BagleySupreme Court of the United States · 1985
  5. United States v. AgursSupreme Court of the United States · 1976

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3Cited by38 opinions

  1. Robert A. Brecheen v. Dan Reynolds, Warden of the Oklahoma State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1994
  2. Woodruff v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1993
  3. Castro v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1987
  4. Fisher v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1987
  5. McGregor v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1994

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