Court Opinion

ID: 9796608
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 04:00:47.040223+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:50:40.086416
License: Public Domain

THOMAS, Justice,
concurring and dissenting.
I would affirm Mazurek's conviction. I agree with those aspects of the majority opinion that hold that plea agreements do not offend either federal or state statutes; there was no prosecutorial misconduct in connection with the argument against severing charges for trial; and the evidence of the threat was properly admitted. I have not been persuaded to renounce the views set forth in the concurring and dissenting opinion I authored in Urrutia v. State, 924 P.2d 965, 971-72 (Wyo.1996), and the concurring opinion I authored in Ross v. State, 980 P.2d 965, 972-78 (Wyo.1996). I would hold that, in the absence of objection to the evidence, no error occurred in the elicitation of guilty pleas from the co-conspirators. Further, I would find no reversible error in any of the other points asserted by Mazurek.
I would affirm this conviction.