Court Opinion

ID: 9885703
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-10-06 13:11:27.748473+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:48:55.970981
License: Public Domain

LUMPKIN, Judge:
concur in result.
T1 I concur with the Court's decision to affirm the sentence in this case. However, I differ with the Court in some aspects of its analysis.
2 I continue in my belief that the issue of peremptory challenges is not a structural error issue and the Court erred in its analysis of the issue in Golden v. State, 2006 OK CR 2, ¶ 18, 127 P.3d 1150, 1154-55 (Lumpkin, V.P.J., Dissenting, 127 P.3d at 1155-1158). Regardless, there was no error in this case.
T3 In addressing the issue of the use of the power point as a demonstrative aid in the testimony of Dr. Cunningham, it must be emphasized that both parties agreed this was only a demonstrative aid to the testimony and would not be admitted as evidence. As a result, the jury was not denied the benefit of any admissible evidence because Dr. Cunningham was able to fully testify as to his opinion and the basis for it. If the power point had more information than was contained in the testimony of Dr. Cunningham, then that additional information was not evidence to be considered by the jury. While the visual aid would have assisted in the presentation of the defense evidence, I agree with the Court that any error was harmless. The decision by the jury that the continuing threat aggravator was not supported by the evidence confirms the harmless error. When Dr. Cunningham's testimony is viewed with the remaining mitigating witnesses' testimony, it is clear the jurors were presented with a clear picture of all relevant mitigating evidence.