HANSON v. SHERROD

No. 13-5100.

797 F.3d 810 (2015)

John Fitzgerald HANSON, Petitioner-Appellant, v. William A. SHERROD, Warden, U.S. Penitentiary, USP Pollock, Louisiana; E. Scott Pruitt, Attorney General of Oklahoma, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

August 13, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sarah M. Jernigan , Assistant Federal Public Defender ( T. Kenneth Lee , Assistant Federal Public Defender, and Randy A. Bauman , Assistant Federal Public Defender, with her on the briefs), Office of the Federal Public Defender, Oklahoma City, OK, for Petitioner-Appellant.

Robert Whittaker , Assistant Attorney General ( E. Scott Pruitt , Attorney General for the State of Oklahoma, with him on the brief) Office of the Attorney General for the State of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK, for Respondents-Appellees.

Before HARTZ, TYMKOVICH, and PHILLIPS, Circuit Judges.


This appeal arises out of the murders of Jerald Thurman and Mary Bowles in Tulsa, Oklahoma. At trial, a jury convicted defendant John Hanson for the murder of Mary Bowles with malice aforethought and for the felony murder of Thurman. At the penalty phase, the jury found three aggravating...

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