Court Opinion

ID: 9576566
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 21:26:01.170878+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:10:00.263871
License: Public Domain

PARKS, Judge,
specially concurring:
This Court established guidelines for the taking of guilty pleas in King v. State, 553 P.2d 529 (Okl.Cr.1976). It continues to be the opinion of this writer that the King directives should be followed step by step whenever a plea of guilty or nolo conten-dere is entered. Ocampo v. State, 778 P.2d 920, 925 (Okl.Cr.1989) (Parks, P.J., concurring in part/dissenting in part). If they were, most of the questions concérn-ing reliability of these pleas would be eliminated. Compliance with King “best expedites the interests of justice and promotes finality by foreclosing state and federal collateral attacks.” Ocampo, 778 P.2d at 925. On the basis of stare decisis, however, I must yield my view to that of the majority of this Court and apply the standards set forth in Ocampo. Having done this, I concur in the instant case.