Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals
DECISIONS
WADKINS v. STATE
2022 OK CR 1
Case Number: F-2018-790
Decided: 01/20/2022
ROBERT ERIC WADKINS, Appellant v. THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA, Appellee
¶1 This Court handed down an Opinion in the above-styled case on October 28, 2021. The opinion addressed Wadkins’s meritorious claim that the State of Oklahoma lacked jurisdiction over the charged crimes because he is an Indian and the crimes occurred in Indian Country. On November 18, 2021, Wadkins, by and through his counsel Chad Johnson, filed a motion requesting publication of the opinion in this matter.
WADKINS v. STATE
2022 OK CR 2
Case Number: F-2018-790
Decided: 01/20/2022
ROBERT ERIC WADKINS, Appellant v. THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA, Appellee.
¶1 Appellant Robert Eric Wadkins appeals his Judgment and Sentence from the District Court of Choctaw County, Case No. CF-2017-126, for First Degree Rape (Count 1), in violation of 21 O.S.2011, §§ 1114 and 1115 and Kidnapping (Count 2), in violation of 21 O.S.Supp.2012, § 741, each after former conviction of two or more felonies. The Honorable Gary L. Brock, Special Judge, presided over Wadkins’s jury trial and sentenced Wadkins, in accordance with the jury’s verdict, to forty years imprisonment on Count 1 and five years imprisonment on Count 2, to be served consecutively. Wadkins raises seven claims on appeal. We find relief is required on Wadkins’s jurisdictional challenge in Proposition 1, rendering his other claims moot.
MARTINEZ v. STATE
2021 OK CR 40, PCD-2020-612
Decided 12/30/2021
¶1 Mica Alexander Martinez, Petitioner, was tried by jury and found guilty of Counts 1 and 2, first degree murder, in violation of 21 O.S.Supp.2009, § 701.7 (A); and Count 3, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, in violation of 21 O.S.Supp.2006, § 645 , in Comanche County District Court, Case No. CF-2009-473. The jury found two statutory aggravating circumstances 1 and sentenced Mr. Martinez to death in Counts 1 and 2, and ten years imprisonment in Count 3. On direct appeal, this Court affirmed. Martinez v. State , 2016 OK CR 3 , 371 P.3d 1100 .