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U.S. v. FIELDS

No. 05-7128.

516 F.3d 923 (2008)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Edward Leon FIELDS, Jr., Defendant-Appellant. State of Oklahoma, Amicus Curiae.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

February 25, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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.

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.

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

TACHA, Circuit Judge.

Edward Leon Fields killed Charles and Shirley Chick at the Winding Stair Campground in the Ouachita National Forest on July 10, 2003. He had seen the couple there days earlier and drove there the evening of July 10 with a homemade ghillie suit (a covering for head and body made to resemble underbrush that Fields referred to as his sniper suit) and a camouflaged and powerfully scoped rifle in his truck. He found the Chicks on a vista some distance...

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