Bowie v. Franklin’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
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Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Slack v. McDaniel · Haines v. Kerner · North Carolina v. Pearce · Alabama v. Smith · Lorenzo Montez v. Mark McKinna
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“Petitioner was convicted of first-degree murder on January 30, 1987, in the District Court of Oklahoma County, Case No. CRF-86-2004, and he was sentenced to life imprisonment for this conviction. Petitioner was not immediately transferred into the custody of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections (ODOC), however, due to a second pending murder charge. Petitioner was convicted of first-degree murder on this second charge on May 10, 1988, in the District Court of Oklahoma County Case No. CRF-87-6621, and he was sentenced to death for this conviction. Following his second conviction, Petitioner was transferred into ODOC custody to begin serving his sentence. In 1991, the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals (OCCA) affirmed Petitioner’s conviction and life sentence in CRF-86-2004. And in 1995, the OCCA affirmed Petitioner’s second conviction in CRF-87-6621, but reversed his death sentence and remanded the case for a new sentencing trial. After the OCCA reversed Petitioner’s death sentence in CRF-87-6621, credit for the 2,709 days he had served on death row was applied to his consecutive life sentence in CRF-86-2004. On re-sentencing in CRF-87-6621, Petitioner received a sentence of life imprisonment, and it was to be served consecutively to his life sentence in CRF-86-2004. Then in January 2011, Petitioner was paroled from his life sentence in CRF-86-2004, and he began serving his newly-received life sentence in CRF-87-6621. Because the 2,709 days he had served on death row were pr”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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