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    Jacky Cardale Mayfield Sentenced to Life in 2016 OK Murder of Markey Goff and Meshawna Jones


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    Tulsa County DA seeks death penalty for man in Chamberlain Park double homicide

    By Samantha Vicent
    Tulsa World

    The Tulsa County District Attorney's Office on Tuesday filed its intent to seek the death penalty against an Oklahoma City man charged in the June 2016 slayings of two people at a north Tulsa park in the presence of two small children.

    But the man's defense says there are concerns about his cognitive functioning.

    Jacky Cardale Mayfield, 29, is scheduled for a jury trial Jan. 7, 2019, for the shooting deaths of 26-year-old Markey Goff and 31-year-old Meshawna Jones, whose bodies were found June 13, 2016, inside a Ford SUV parked at Chamberlain Park, 4940 N. Frankfort Ave.

    Mayfield and his cousin, 27-year-old Rebecca Williams, were in court for a preliminary hearing Nov. 22, 2016, for first-degree murder and accessory charges, respectively. They were both ordered to stand trial before District Judge James Caputo.

    However, Caputo pushed back Mayfield's arraignment multiple times for what court records indicate is a contention by Mayfield's defense team that his IQ is too low to be legally eligible to receive capital punishment.

    Williams is due in court Dec. 4.

    In a bill of particulars filed Tuesday, District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler asked for consideration of the death penalty due to the state's belief that Mayfield could be a continuing threat to society. He also noted that Mayfield has already been incarcerated for a 2006 conviction of assault and battery with a deadly weapon.

    Caputo entered a not guilty plea on Mayfield's behalf Tuesday and scheduled a status conference for Dec. 15 to further discuss Mayfield's mental deficiency claim.


    Asked whether Mayfield would like his appearance waived for that hearing, Mayfield and Assistant Public Defender Marny Hill said the defendant wants to be in attendance at every court appearance through his trial.

    Hill and Caputo said they anticipate that Mayfield's jury trial will last at least three weeks and needs to be preceded by pretrial litigation regarding Mayfield's cognitive abilities. A motion filed by Hill in August says a 2005 evaluation revealed that Mayfield has a full-scale IQ of 65 and received a diagnosis of "mild mental retardation."

    Hill also wrote that a summer 2017 evaluation of Mayfield at the Tulsa Jail indicated that a medical professional determined his IQ to be 69 and found he has "significant limitations in several adaptive functioning skills."

    Kunzweiler said after Tuesday's hearing that the state has tried unsuccessfully for most of the past year to have its own expert evaluate Mayfield, but that neither side was able to reach "a meeting of the minds" for that to occur. He said the filing of the bill of particulars will ensure that all sides in the case have the opportunity to fully investigate the matter before arguments begin over issues such as what evidence will be admissible.

    A bill of particulars, according to state law and legal precedent, must be withdrawn if a court determines that a defendant has mental retardation.

    An acquaintance of Mayfield's testified during his preliminary hearing that Mayfield told her he killed two people at Chamberlain Park before he "sent a female back to wipe the car down," apparently for fingerprints. A 5-year-old boy and an infant in the vehicle were physically unharmed, and the boy exited the SUV and told a passerby he needed help, which led to a call to police.

    Assistant District Attorney Isaac Shields, who is prosecuting the case, alleged Mayfield — a reported member of a subset of the Hoover Crips — shot Goff and Jones in the head after one of them refused to let him steal prescription pills.

    Williams faces an accessory charge based on claims that she, acting on a request from Mayfield, took a phone from one of the SUV's occupants and destroyed it without telling anyone that she saw two people had been fatally shot.

    A fellow inmate testified that Mayfield told him a gang contact had reached out to Mayfield in Oklahoma City to ask that he "hit a lick," or rob Goff, whom Mayfield knew, for the pills. He also said Mayfield told him he should have shot the children because the older child's statements to authorities were likely the cause of his arrest.

    The death penalty request involving Mayfield is the third that Kunzweiler's office has filed since September, following bills of particulars filed against Gregory Epperson in the March strangulation death of Tulsa teenager Kelsey

    Tennant and against Gerald Lowe and Michaela Riddle in the November 2016 fatal beating of Courtney Palmer.

    Epperson's was the first under Kunzweiler's tenure as District Attorney.

    Kunzweiler said it has been some time since Tulsa County has had three outstanding capital cases simultaneously. He said the facts in each case are significantly aggravating to warrant death penalty consideration.

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    The death penalty case against Jacky Mayfield related to a double homicide at Chamberlain Park in June 2016 has a trial date set for Jan. 7 before District Judge James Caputo.

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    Tulsa Woman Pleads Guilty To Helping In Double Murder

    By NewsOn6.com

    TULSA, Oklahoma - A judge sentences a Tulsa woman to 10 years in prison after she pleaded guilty to accessory to a double murder.

    Prosecutors say Rebecca Williams helped the alleged shooter, Jacky Mayfield, hide evidence after a shooting at Chamberlain Park in 2016.

    Meshawna Jones and Markey Goff were found dead in a car at the park with a young child in the car.

    Jacky Mayfield is charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the case and is awaiting trial. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.

    http://www.newson6.com/story/4020794...-double-murder
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    Death penalty dropped, non-jury trial scheduled for man charged in 2016 Chamberlain Park slayings

    By Kelsy Schlotthauer
    Tulsa World

    The Tulsa County District Attorney’s Office last month dropped its pursuit of the death penalty against a defendant charged with killing a man and woman in front of two young children at a north Tulsa park in 2016.

    Jacky Mayfield, 31, is charged with two counts of first-degree murder in connection with the deaths of Markey Goff and MeShawna Jones at Chamberlain Park, 4940 N. Frankfort Ave., on June 14, 2016.

    Mayfield, then 27 and involved in a gang, shot Goff and Jones in their heads because one refused to let him steal prescription pills, prosecutors allege. The two children in the car, a 5-year-old and an infant, were physically unharmed but were left at the park overnight.

    Detectives thought then the 5-year-old comforted the infant to sleep before wandering the park to unsuccessfully search for help. After falling asleep himself, the child told a passerby the next morning that he needed help, prompting a police response.

    The children were placed with relatives, and Mayfield was arrested on the murder charges as well as possession of a firearm after former conviction of a felony and possession of a stolen vehicle. The latter charge was dismissed in 2016 when a prosecution witness failed to appear, court records show.

    Mayfield’s cousin, Rebecca Williams, was convicted in March of accessory after the fact for returning to the shooting scene to wipe down the car under Mayfield’s direction, apparently for fingerprints, and leaving without telling anyone two people had been fatally shot and two young children were left alone in a park.

    It was also alleged that she took a phone from one of the victims and destroyed it at Mayfield’s request.

    Williams was sentenced to 10 years in Department of Corrections custody and is currently housed in Oklahoma City.

    Prosecutors asked for the death penalty against Mayfield in 2017, setting off a lengthy back-and-forth with defense about whether Mayfield was legally competent to receive a death sentence. Prosecutors then dismissed his bill of particulars with prejudice in late January.

    Tulsa County Assistant District Attorney Kenneth Elmore said his team withdrew the bill after Mayfield waived his right to a jury trial, but the decision was based on a host of factors.

    “With any death penalty case, it’s our obligation to always be evaluating the case for the best appropriate use of resources, and as the litigation progressed, we believed that this was the best course of action to take,” Elmore said Tuesday.

    Mayfield is scheduled for a nonjury trial May 12, according to court records. If convicted of first-degree murder, he could face life or life without parole in prison.

    https://www.tulsaworld.com/news/loca...38d52b2fb.html
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    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
    - Rowan Atkinson

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    He was sentenced to life:

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