Hooper v. Gibson

BALDOCK, Circuit Judge.

An Oklahoma jury convicted Petitioner Michael Edward Hooper on three counts of first degree murder in the shooting deaths of his twenty-three-year-old former girlfriend, Cynthia Jarman, and her two children, Tonya Kay Jarman and Timmy Glen Jarman. The jury imposed the death sentence for each count. The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed Petitioner’s convictions and sentences on direct appeal and denied post-conviction relief. See Hooper v. State, 947 P.2d 1090 (Okla.Crim.App.1997); Hooper v. State, 957 P.2d 120 (Okla.Crim.App.), cert. denied, 524 U.S. 943, 118…