Court Opinion

ID: 9571072
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 20:28:54.915471+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:27:22.841155
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BRETT, Judge
(specially concurring).
While I concur in the results of this decision, I would recommend to the district court a suspended sentence for defendant.
Prior to the time judgment and sentence was imposed, 216 citizens signed petitions recommending the defendant for a suspended sentence. The defendant’s court appointed counsel did not apply for suspension, but other people did so in defendant’s behalf. Consequently, I would instruct the trial judge to consider the defendant for a suspended sentence, under 22 O.S.1971, § 994. In addition, since this trial was completed the court has some two years additional record to consider, with reference to the defendant’s behavior.