Court Opinion

ID: 9789836
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 01:42:33.150037+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:37:24.585667
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CHAPEL, Presiding Judge,
concurring:
I concur in the Court’s decision denying Wallace’s Application. Traditionally in Oklahoma, on post-conviction review, a defendant has received the benefit of intervening changes in the law. The revised post-conviction statute changed that general rule.9 Moreover, this Court has recently determined that the issue of the appropriate standard for determination of competency under Cooper v. Oklahoma10 is not a new rule of constitutional law.11 Therefore procedural bars may apply to these claims on post-eonviction. Our resolution of Wallace’s Proposition V acutely illustrates the harsh result which may occur when the principle of finality of judgment is applied. However, our new post-conviction statute dictates the strict application of that principle.

. 22 O.S.Supp.1995, § 1089(D)(9)(a) & (b).

. - U.S. -, 116 S.Ct. 1373, 134 L.Ed.2d 498 (1996).

. Walker v. State, 933 P.2d. 327, 339 — 41 (1997).