Court Opinion

ID: 9583551
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 22:39:44.609805+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:39:04.173655
License: Public Domain

LUMPKIN, Judge,
specially concurring:
I concur in the Court’s decision in this case and again urge the Court to adopt a unified “Spuehler-type” approach to evaluating both direct and circumstantial evidence. See White v. State, 900 P.2d 982, 993-95 (Okl.Cr. 1995) (Lumpkin, J., Specially Concurring). The parsing of the standard of review is no longer supported in the law. Id. And, when both standards are utilized to evaluate different parts of the evidence presented in the same trial, as in the present case, the parsing appears somewhat whimsical. The Court should seek to resolve this unsupported dichotomy. I compliment my colleague for an excellent, well-reasoned opinion.