Court Opinion

ID: 9548957
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 18:11:06.237654+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:19:40.338283
License: Public Domain

*1041PARKS, Presiding Judge,
dissenting.
I respectfully dissent. I am of the opinion that the “same transaction” test for double jeopardy, as skillfully explained by Justice Brennen in Ashe v. Swenson, 397 U.S. 436, 448, 90 S.Ct. 1189, 1197, 25 L.Ed.2d 469 (1970) is eminently correct, and affords the proper interpretation of both the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and article 2, section 21 of the Oklahoma Constitution. In my view, both the conspiracy and murder were part of the same transaction and, accordingly, petitioner’s plea of nolo contendré to one bars subsequent prosecution of the other.