Court Opinion

ID: 9854158
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 06:02:08.076957+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:22:57.709906
License: Public Domain

PARKS, Presiding Judge,
Specially Concurring:
With respect to appellant’s second, third and fourth assignments of error, I reiterate my disagreement with this Court’s position regarding a defendant’s admission of prior convictions. As I stated in my separate opinion in Hanson v. State, 716 P.2d 688 (Okl.Cr.1986), the decision whether to find an accused guilty of a former conviction is always within the province of the jury. Id. at 690. However, I am compelled to concur with the result in this opinion as a matter of stare decisis.