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    Shaun Michael Bosse - Oklahoma Death Row



    Katrina Griffin and her children; Christian Griffin and Chasity Hammer




    Shaun Michael Bosse


    Bosse trial begins

    More than 300 prospective jurors are expected to report Friday morning to the Farm & Home Community Center in Purcell to complete paperwork in preparation for the upcoming murder and arson trial of Shaun M. Bosse of Blanchard.

    Bosse, 29, is charged with three counts of first-degree murder and one count of first-degree arson in the July 23, 2010 deaths of his girlfriend and her two children.

    Prosecutors believe Bosse killed the family to cover up the fact that he was the one who had stolen the items. The state is seeking the death penalty.

    The victims were Katrina Griffin, 24; her 8-year-old son Christian Griffin and 6-year-old daughter Chasity Hammer.

    Mother and son were stabbed numerous times before their home was set on fire. The killer had put Chasity Hammer in a closet, wedging a chair under the doorknob to prevent her escape. She died of smoke inhalation and burns.

    According to an Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation agent’s affidavit, Griffin called the McClain County Sheriff’s Department late on July 22 to report the theft of several items from her home in the Dibble area.

    Bosse was also at the house when a deputy took the report.

    Less than 9-1/2 hours later, the Dibble and Washington Fire Departments responded to the address when a neighbor noticed the house was on fire. The firefighters discovered the three bodies in the rubble.

    Later that day, investigators located Bosse at Oklahoma City Community College.

    Subsequently, authorities uncovered evidence that showed Bosse had visited several pawn shops in Oklahoma City on the morning of July 23, selling items later identified as Griffin’s, according to the affidavit.

    Blood was found on clothing and shoes belonging to Bosse.

    Bosse was charged on Aug. 6, 2010. On June 26, 2011, he escaped from the McClain County Jail by overpowering two detention officers and stealing a car belonging to one of them.

    He was recaptured following a manhunt.

    In filing a bill of particulars to seek the death sentence, prosecutors wrote that none of the victims died quickly or easily.

    Chasity Hammer, in particular, “was likely conscious and awre of her struggle to breathe and impending death,” prosecutors wrote. “She also likely heard the continuing struggle and death of her mother Katrina Griffin and brother Christian Griffin with Bosse wile she was trapped in the closet....

    “All three victims were subjected to great physical anguish and extreme mental cruelty. They likely witnessed the other victims get stabbed. This anticipation of death caused by the knowledge that others had been stabbed is further evidence of extreme mental cruelty.”

    http://www.purcellregister.com/news/...a4bcf887a.html
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    Opening Statements Begin In Murder Trial Of Blanchard Man

    Prosecution and defense attorneys began presenting their cases Wednesday in the murder trial of a man accused of killing a McClain County woman and her two children.

    Shaun Bosse is charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of 25-year-old Katrina Griffin and her two children, 8-year-old Christian and 6-year-old Chasity. Firefighters discovered the bodies of the three victims in a burned mobile home in July 2010.

    Jury selection in the trial lasted two weeks. Attorneys began delivering their opening statements Wednesday morning. If Bosse is convicted, prosecutors will push for the death penalty.

    http://www.news9.com/story/19844338/...-blanchard-man
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    Oklahoma court urged to reverse death penalty in deaths of 3

    A defense attorney says legal errors in the trial of a man who was sentenced to die for the 2010 deaths of a south-central Oklahoma woman and her two children warrant reversal of his death penalty.

    Attorney Michael Morehead of the Oklahoma Indigent Defense System urged the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals Tuesday to order a new trial for 32-year-old Shaun Michael Bosse of Blanchard. Assistant Attorney General Thomas Tucker opposed the request, saying there was no error in Bosse's trial.

    Bosse was convicted of three counts of first-degree murder and one count of first-degree arson for the deaths of 25-year-old Katrina Griffin and her children, 8-year-old Christian Griffin and 6-year-old Chasity Hammer. Their bodies were discovered inside their burned-out mobile home in the rural McClain County town of Dibble.

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    Shaun Bosse's Murder Conviction Upheld In Death Of Woman, Children

    McCLAIN COUNTY, Oklahoma (AP) - The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals has upheld the murder conviction and death sentences of a man in the deaths of a woman and her two children in Dibble.

    The court on Friday rejected appeals by 33-year-old Shaun Michael Bosse.

    Bosse was convicted and given three death sentences for the 2010 deaths of 25-year-old Katrina Griffin, 8-year-old Christian Griffin and 6-year-old Chasity Hammer. Bosse was also convicted of arson for burning the family's mobile home.

    12/18/12 Related Story: Murder Victims' Family Speaks Out After Shaun Bosse Sentenced To Death


    Evidence showed Katrina Griffin and Christian Griffin were stabbed to death and Chasity Hammer died of smoke inhalation and burns.

    7/23/10 Related Story: Boyfriend Of Woman Killed In McClain County Mobile Home Fire Arrested


    Bosse was arrested after investigators learned he had pawned items taken from the home.

    Bosse's appeal included claims of improper evidence, prosecutorial misconduct, ineffective defense counsel, improper jury instructions and improper admission of photos of the victims.

    http://www.news9.com/story/30285880/...woman-children
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    Chickasaw Nation reservation still exists, judge rules in Oklahoma death row inmate's case

    OKLAHOMA CITY — A McClain County district judge ruled Tuesday that death row inmate Shaun Michael Bosse was wrongly tried in state court because the crime was committed on the Chickasaw Nation’s reservation and the victims were members of the tribe.

    “This Court finds that Congress established a reservation for the Chickasaw Nation, and Congress never specifically erased those boundaries and disestablished the reservation,” Judge Leah Edwards wrote. “Therefore, the crime occurred in Indian Country.” The ruling by Edwards was the first judicial recognition of the Chickasaw reservation in the wake of the historic U.S. Supreme Court decision in July that the Muscogee (Creek) Nation was never disestablished.

    State judges have ruled in other cases in recent weeks that the Cherokee, Choctaw and Seminole reservations were never disestablished. The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals is expected to decide, possibly before the end of the year, whether to uphold those rulings and establish a standard for handling hundreds of cases affected by the Supreme Court’s ruling in the case of Jimcy McGirt.

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    A convicted Oklahoma killer's death sentence was overturned because of a landmark US Supreme Court ruling

    By Dakin Andone
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    An Oklahoma death row inmate is set to receive a new trial after a court overturned his conviction based on a US Supreme Court ruling last year that determined a large part of the state is Native American territory for the purposes of federal criminal law.

    The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals ruled Thursday the state did not have the jurisdiction to prosecute Shaun Bosse, who was sentenced to death in 2012 for the murders of 24-year-old Katrina Griffin, her 8-year-old son and 6-year-old daughter because the victims were members of the Chickasaw Nation and the murders took place on the reservation.

    The appeals court cited the Supreme Court's landmark July 2020 ruling in McGirt vs. Oklahoma, in which the justices ruled 5-4 that a broad swath of the state was Native American land for the purposes of federal criminal law. According to federal law, crimes that involve Native Americans on a reservation are subject to federal, not state, jurisdiction.

    CNN has reached out to an attorney for Bosse for comment.

    District Attorney Greg Mashburn, who prosecuted Bosse, told CNN in an interview Friday that federal prosecutors will assume jurisdiction in the case.

    "I'm devastated for the family (of Bosse's victims)," Mashburn said. "They can't heal. They're just going to have to go through this whole process again. I'm just really upset for them and hate that they're going to have to sit through another trial."

    The district attorney said the appeals court had their hands tied because of the McGirt decision. The result, Mashburn said, was "Bosse, who's as White as a sheep, gets to benefit by the people he chose to brutally murder."

    Mashburn's office anticipated the ruling, he said, so in recent months it has worked with the US Attorney's Office to help prepare federal officials to prosecute Bosse.

    According to Mashburn, Griffin's family still supports the death penalty for Bosse. It remains unclear whether federal prosecutors would pursue capital punishment, particularly under a new presidential administration and Justice Department.

    Additionally, though federal prosecutors can prosecute and seek capital punishment for certain crimes committed in Native American territory, tribes can opt in or out of the federal death penalty, an authority often referred to as the "tribal option."

    The Chickasaw Nation said prosecutors were "working to ensure smooth transition of the Bosse case from state court to federal and potentially tribal proceedings."

    "Our hearts remain steadfast with the family this man victimized," Chickasaw Nation Gov. Bill Anoatubby said in a statement Thursday. "We are in communication with the United States Attorney and appreciate his assurance that federal charges will be timely filed. We will continue our efforts to see justice done for the victim's family."

    Supreme Court ruling presents 'massive problems,' DA says

    While McGirt vs. Oklahoma specifically examined a case that occurred on the land of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation in Oklahoma, the appeals court wrote that the Supreme Court's reasoning applies to other cases in which a defendant claims the state lacked prosecutorial jurisdiction for a crime that occurred on a Native American reservation.

    Mashburn said the full scope of the challenges presented by the ruling aren't fully clear yet, but it has already complicated the jobs of law enforcement agencies and prosecutors in jurisdictions that overlap with reservations.

    "It's a huge, complicated issue that's going to cause massive problems," said Mashburn, who serves as district attorney for three counties, two of which have been affected by the McGirt decision.

    According to the Oklahoma Attorney General's Office, 27 of the state's 77 counties are either wholly or partially within Native American reservations, and in those places, the ruling has stripped the state of jurisdiction and given it to federal or tribal officials.

    In an October 2020 letter sent to state officials, tribal leaders and members of Congress representing the state, Attorney General Mike Hunter said that in all of 2017, the US Attorney for the Eastern District of Oklahoma indicted only three crimes related to Indian country.

    But in the few months following McGirt, the office had been referred 571 such cases. It's not clear how many of those cases resulted in indictments.

    Hunter and other state leaders have called on Congress to pass new legislation allowing Native American nations to enter cooperative agreements with the state, allowing them to work together in these cases. The Attorney General reiterated that call Thursday in response to rulings in Bosse's case and another with a similar outcome involving a separate inmate and the Cherokee Nation.

    "Crimes are being committed every day on lands now recognized to be reservations," Hunter said, "and today's decisions only place greater burdens on federal resources that are already stretched."

    Acting US Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma Robert Troester said in a statement the office had been working with law enforcement at all levels since the McGirt decision to "protect those living within the boundaries of the Chickasaw Nation."

    "Our office will continue the ethical, vigorous, fair, and impartial enforcement of the laws of the United States for the benefit of our communities," he said.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime...?ocid=msedgntp
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    Death Row Inmate Charged Again For McClain Co. Triple-Murder After Sentence Vacated

    By Barry Mangold
    News On 6

    Shaun Bosse was convicted of killing a mother and her two kids in McClain County and sentenced to death more than a decade ago. On Tuesday, he was charged with the crimes again in federal court after his state conviction was thrown out due to a change in jurisdictional law.

    “He gets a whole other shot at it,” said Greg Mashburn, the Oklahoma district attorney who helped convict Bosse at the state level in 2012.

    The U.S. Supreme Court ruling in McGirt v. Oklahoma reaffirmed tribal boundaries and criminal jurisdictions. The plaintiff in the case was a tribal citizen, convicted of a crime at the state level, who argued he should have been tried at the federal level. The high court agreed.

    The ruling gave way to thousands of previous criminal cases that originated on tribal land.

    Bosse appealed to the Oklahoma Criminal Court of Appeals and said his conviction was not valid because the crimes took place on Chickasaw land, and the victims were Chickasaw. His death sentence was vacated.
    Federal prosecutors filed identical charges on Tuesday.

    “He gets a shot at not getting the death penalty. To complicate things, when you get to federal court, (there are) different rules and different standards,” Mashburn said. “I’m devastated for the family. They’re going to have to relive all this again.”

    Mashburn called the appeals court decision “absurd.”

    “He was in control of the entire situation. He got to pick who he was going to kill (and) where he killed them,” Mashburn said. “He’s going to get the benefit by those decisions that he made. He gets the benefit by who he chose to kill and the rest of us have to stand by and watch him get a whole new bite of the apple.”

    Attorney General Mike Hunter asked the appeals court to reconsider the decision to invalidate Bosse’s conviction because he is not a tribal citizen, which, according to Hunter’s office, would mean there is both state and federal jurisdiction to prosecute.

    Stephen Greetham, senior counsel to the Chickasaw Nation, said the tribe is committed to assisting the prompt prosecution of Bosse and other cases put in question by the McGirt ruling.

    “Our goal was, and is, never to allow Mr. Bosse to be free or to avoid justice for the crimes he did commit. Our goal is to make sure that we do it right,” Greetham said.

    https://www.newson6.com/story/606542...tence-vacated-
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    Testimony Wrapping Up In Oklahoma Man's Murder Trial

    PURCELL, Okla. (AP) -- Testimony is winding down in the first-degree murder trial of an Oklahoma man charged in the deaths of two children and their mother. A 12-member jury in McClain County has heard testimony for the past week in the case of Shaun Michael Bosse of Blanchard. Prosecutors say jurors could begin deliberating a verdict in the case as early as Wednesday after listening to closing arguments by prosecutors and defense attorneys. Bosse is charged in the July 23, 2010, deaths of 25-year-old Katrina Griffin and her two children, 8-year-old Christian Griffin and 6-year-old Chasity Hammer. The victims' bodies were found in the family's burned-out mobile home. Bosse -- who also faces a count of first-degree arson -- has pleaded not guilty. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.

    http://www.okcfox.com/newsroom/top_s...vid_7640.shtml
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    Bosse murder case

    McClain County jurors in the murder and arson case against Shaun Michael Bosse “met” the victims on opening day of the trial in District Judge Greg Dixon’s courtroom.

    Katrina Griffin, at 24, was a “homebody ... very much dependent on family to help her,” District Attorney Greg Mashburn told the jury.

    Christian Griffin, 8, was “a normal healthy, happy young boy and very protective of his mother.”

    Chasity Hammer was just four years old, a “cute little girl.”

    The prosecution is seeking the death penalty for Bosse, who faces three counts of first-degree murder and one count of first-degree arson.

    Bosse brutally murdered all three on July 23, 2010, Mashburn told the jury, and then set a fire in their mobile home in a failed attempt to cover up the crime.

    The state’s burden, Mashburn told the jury, is to prove Bosse’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.

    “It’s a burden we gladly accept in this case,” he added.

    Firefighters found Katrina Griffin in the master bedroom. She had been stabbed eight times.

    Christian’s body was found across the room, a towel wrapped around his head. He had five stab wounds.

    Chasity was in a closet at the opposite end of the trailer. A chair had been wedged under the door knob to prevent her escape.

    Mashburn said the girl had thermal burns to her entire body. An autopsy found soot in her stomach and lungs and her blood was “loaded with the toxic gases she’d breathed in,” Mashburn said.

    She also had a cut below one eye and a “big bruise” on her skull.

    Mashburn described how a neighbor on his way to work noticed smoke coming from the mobile home around 9 a.m. that morning.

    He called 911 and the first firefighters to arrive were told a mother and two young children lived there.

    The firefighters entered the home, first checking two bedrooms to the right.

    When they exited, two other firefighters went in, this time to the left, using a hose to fan the smoke.

    The door to the master bedroom was closed and one firefighter had to push hard to open it.

    “What he sees is horrific,” Mashburn said, describing the bodies of Katrina and Christian Griffin.

    http://www.purcellregister.com/news/...a4bcf887a.html
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    US Supreme Court reverses Oklahoma man's death penalty

    The U.S. Supreme Court has thrown out the death sentence for an Oklahoma man convicted of first-degree murder in the deaths of a 25-year-old woman and her two children.

    The nation's highest court ruled Tuesday that a judge should not have allowed relatives of the victims to tell jurors their opinions on an appropriate sentence for Shaun Michael Bosse (BOSS'-ee)

    Bosse was convicted and sentenced to death for the July 23, 2010, deaths of Katrina Griffin and her children, 8-year-old Christian and 6-year-old Chastity.

    The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed Bosse's conviction and death sentence last year. But the Supreme Court says Bosse's attorney objected when prosecutors asked three of the victims' relatives to recommend a sentence to the jury. All three recommended death, and the jury agreed.

    http://www.fox23.com/news/oklahoma/u...alty/456089469
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