Legal Opinion
Rushing v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma
Decided January 24, 1984No. F-81-206PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BUSSEY, Presiding Judge:
In the summer of 1979 the appellant, Jerry R. Rushing, and Debra Yvonne Rushing were in the process of getting a divorce. Ms. Rushing had moved from Tulsa, where they lived, to Enid. From July 25, 1979 to August 8, 1979, Ms. Rushing and the three Rushing children were living in the Enid Option House, a home for battered women. On August 8, 1979, the appellant and Quanita Rena Washington kidnapped Ms. Rushing and took her to Tulsa.
After the kidnapping episode ended, the appellant and Washington were charged in the Garfield County District Court with Kidnapping.…
2Cases cited31 opinions
- Chapman v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Witherspoon v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Irvin v. DowdSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
- Bumper v. North CarolinaSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Sandefur v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1969
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3Cited by43 opinions
- Robert A. Brecheen v. Dan Reynolds, Warden of the Oklahoma State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1994
- Green v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1985
- Phillips v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1999
- Lozoya v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1996
- Brecheen v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1987
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