United States Tenth Circuit

Where the defendant's continuing course of pre-murder abuse of the victim was admissible to show the conscious suffering required for the heinous, atrocious, or cruel aggravator, and the jury's finding of a continuing threat on the basis of the callousness reflected in the defendant's abusive conduct toward the victim was supported, habeas relief denied.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/13/2002
• Published 03/13/2002

Judges

• MURPHY, Circuit Judge., Before SEYMOUR, BALDOCK, and MURPHY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James L. Hankins of Hankins Law Office, Enid, OK, for Petitioner-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Sandra D. Howard, Assistant Attorney General, Chief, Criminal Appeals (W.A. Drew Edmondson, Attorney General of Oklahoma, with her on the brief), Oklahoma City, OK, for Respondent-Appellee.