Court Opinion

ID: 9558776
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 17:16:37.0305+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:09:35.320843
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PARKS, Presiding Judge.,
specially concurring:
I too agree that Moore’s denial of post-conviction relief by the district court should be affirmed. I feel, however, the need to address certain assignments of error raised in the application.
The record indicates that the testimony of Vickie Caster, petitioner’s accomplice, was corroborated at trial and that the jury was properly instructed concerning the necessary corroboration. 22 O.S.1981, § 742.
The testimony of VanWinkle who worked with the victim at the same motel and of Hermani who was an owner of the motel where the victim worked was admitted to show that the victim feared the petitioner. They each repeated statements by the victim to them demonstrating that Fernandez had become afraid of petitioner. The trial court offered to give the jury an instruction limiting the jury’s consideration of the evidence to the victim’s state of mind. The defense refused it, therefore, no error resulted. See Moore v. State, 761 P.2d 866 (Okl.Cr.1988).
Petitioner alleges that the trial court erred in admitting evidence of his other crimes and bad acts because they were irrelevant. However, the evidence was relevant to issues at trial and properly admitted under 12 O.S.1981, § 2404(B).
The instruction on flight was warranted on the evidence surrounding petitioner’s departure for Texas following the homicide and his attempted escape when stopped by police officers five or six days later. Douma v. State, 749 P.2d 1163 (Okl.Cr.1988).
Petitioner’s assertion that evidence of unadjudicated acts of violence should not be admitted to prove the “continuing threat” aggravating circumstance is not well' taken. We have held otherwise. Johnson v. State, 731 P.2d 993 (Okl.Cr.1987).
Petitioner further complains of a number of instructions and of certain comments to the jury by the prosecutor. He previously failed to raise these arguments and I do not believe they rise to the level of reversible error.