United States Tenth Circuit

Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals's interpretation of state's first-degree felony murder statute, to include kidnapping for extortion as an underlying felony, was not unforeseeable and therefore did not deprive defendant of due process; all other arguments on capital appeal rejected.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/22/2002
• Published 05/22/2002

Judges

• TACHA, Chief Judge., Before TACHA, Chief Judge, EBEL, and LUCERO, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Scott W. Braden, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Death Penalty Federal Habeas Corpus Division, Oklahoma City, OK, for Petitioner-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jennifer B. Miller, Assistant Attorney General, State of Oklahoma (W.A. Drew Edmondson, Attorney General of Oklahoma, with her on the brief), Oklahoma City, OK, for Respondent-Appellee.