Court Opinion

ID: 9549866
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 18:25:45.993422+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:21:00.158147
License: Public Domain

LUMPKIN, Judge,
concurring in results.
I concur in the results reached by the Court in this case. However, I do so based on an application of the statutory language contained in 21 O.S.Supp.1992, § 652(B). As the opinion notes “[t]his statute is limited by the act of using a vehicle to facilitate the intentional discharge of a firearm in a reckless manner”. The focus of subsection B is on the use of a vehicle regardless of the number of persons whose safety was disregarded in the discharge of a weapon from the vehicle. Subsections A and B of Section 652 focus on the prohibited acts being committed on “another”, i.e. the specific intent analysis in the Court’s opinion. For that reason, separate charges may be filed and convictions affirmed under Subsection A and C for each individual victim of the prohibited act. However, the operative language of Subsection B is the use of the vehicle to facilitate the intentional discharge of a weapon in conscious disregard for the safety of any other person or persons. Applying the plain language of the statute, only one conviction can be sustained for the use of the vehicle at that particular place at the same time. That is not to say a single charge under Subsection B could not be joined with multiple counts under other statutory provisions which provide for separate offenses when separate victims are involved.