Court Opinion

ID: 9796538
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 03:59:35.728516+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:50:32.596425
License: Public Domain

LUMPKIN, V.P.J.,
concurs in result.
¶ 1 I concur in the result reached by this case and find no error in the evidence, including the portion of Howell’s testimony regarding Charlene Calhoun that was read to the jury, or law that would warrant post-conviction relief. I find the Court’s speculation the jury knew, or might have inferred, more than the evidence shows they were informed regarding the murder is not supported by the evidence the jury actually received. However, as for the procedures used by the Court in adjudicating the issue of mental retardation, I concur only by reason of stare decisis for the same reasons set forth in my writings in Myers v. State, 2005 OK CR 22, 130 P.3d 262; Lambert v. State, 2003 OK CR 11, 71 P.3d 30; and State, ex rel. Lane v. Bass, 2004 OK CR 14, 87 P.3d 629.