Court Opinion

ID: 9794400
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 03:05:08.0316+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:15:40.430565
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PARKS, Judge,
concurring in results:
I agree that district courts are without authority to declare decisions of this Court unconstitutional and, correspondingly, that Judge Blevins should be prohibited from enforcing his April 5, 1991, order. However, I cannot join in the majority’s statement “that our previous order in Allen was not unconstitutional nor did it violate or exceed the authority of the Court of Criminal Appeals....” In its application before this Court, the State sought a writ of mandamus and/or prohibition requesting that Judge Blevins be prohibited from enforcing his order. The application urged that the State was entitled to discovery pursuant to Allen, that Judge Blevins refused to order discovery, and that no other relief was adequate. See 22 O.S.Supp.1989, Ch. 18, App., Rules of the Court of Criminal Appeals, Rule 10.6. The petition did not discuss the constitutionality of Allen, nor did it argue that this Court properly exercised its authority when we issued said order. Therefore any discussion of Allen’s constitutionality, or of this Court’s authority exercised therein, is unnecessary to the outcome of this case and should be considered dicta.