United States Tenth Circuit

Defendant's death sentences for killing two individuals in a national forest are affirmed where: 1) the U.S. properly exercised its concurrent territorial jurisdiction to prosecute defendant for murdering the victims on national forest land; and 2) no reversible error occurred in the proceedings.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/25/2008
• Published 02/26/2008

Judges

• TACHA, Circuit Judge., Before HENRY, Chief Circuit Judge, TACHA, and KELLY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• W.A. Drew Edmondson, Attorney General of Oklahoma, Sandra D. Rinehart, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, filed an amicus curiae brief for the State of Oklahoma.


• For Appellees:
  
• Vicki Mandell-King, Assistant Federal Public Defender (Raymond P. Moore, Federal Public Defender;  James L. Hankins, Ogle & Welch, P.C., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, with her on the briefs), Denver, Colorado, appearing for Defendant-Appellant., Libra Lange, United States Department of Justice, Capital Case Unit (Jeffrey B. Kahan, United States Department of Justice, Capital Case Unit;  Sheldon J. Sperling, United States Attorney Eastern District of Oklahoma, Muskogee, Oklahoma, with her on the briefs), Washington, D.C., appearing for Plaintiff-Appellee.