Legal Opinion
Johnson v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma
Decided January 15, 1992No. PC-90-129PublishedCited by 63 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
LANE, Presiding Judge:
The present case arises from the trial court’s denial of Appellant’s second Application for Post-Conviction relief, brought pursuant to 22 O.S.1981, § 1080 et seq., in the District Court of Oklahoma County. Appellant seeks further review of his 1982 conviction for First Degree Murder of 78 year old Ura Thompson. Testimony at trial established that Miss Thompson died of suffocation after being forcefully raped. After finding that the existence of two aggravating circumstances outweighed the mitigating evidence offered by Appellant, the jury requested that a…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Murray v. CarrierSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Fay v. NoiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- McCleskey v. ZantSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
- Coleman v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1984
- Johnson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1987
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3Cited by63 opinions
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- James Ray Steele v. Leroy Young, Warden Attorney General of the State of OklahomaCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1993
- Fowler v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1995
- Fox v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1994
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