Legal Opinion
Sutton v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma
Decided August 12, 1988No. F-85-470PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BUSSEY, Judge:
The appellant, Gary Dean Sutton, was convicted in the District Court of LeFlore County Case No. CRF-84-254 of the crime of Rape in the First Degree in violation of 21 O.S.1981, § 1114. He was sentenced to a term of five (5) years’ imprisonment, and appeals.
Testimony at trial concerned the gang-rape of a seventeen-year-old girl, (“L.A.”), by the twenty-nine year old appellant and one other man, Frank Baxter. Prior to the incident in question, L.A. had dated the appellant and admitted voluntarily having sexual intercourse with him on three (3) prior occasions. On October…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Schmerber v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Spuehler v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1985
- Walker v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1986
- Mahorney v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1983
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3Cited by2 opinions
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