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    Blanchard Man Who Killed Woman, 2 Kids Sentenced To Death

    A judge has sentenced a Blanchard man to death for the murders of a Dibble woman and her two children.

    Shauna Michael Bosse, 30, was sentenced at 9 a.m. Tuesday in McClain County District Court.

    Bosse was convicted in October of the 2010 deaths of 25-year-old Katrina Griffin, 8-year-old Christian Griffin and 6-year-old Chasity Hammer. Their bodies were found in their burned home.

    The jury recommended the death penalty for each conviction. The judge upheld that sentence, plus 35 years for the arson conviction.

    His execution date is set for February 2013.

    http://www.news9.com/story/20370708/...e-woman-2-kids

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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.

    http://www.koco.com/news/Oklahoma-co...-of-3/33857914
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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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    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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    I believe the article was incorrect when it said SCOTUS reversed the conviction. They simply remanded back to the Court of appeals for further consideration.

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    Oklahoma court upholds convicted killer's death penalty

    By Ken Miller
    The Associated Press

    An Oklahoma appeals court on Thursday upheld the death penalty of a man convicted of killing his girlfriend and her two children then burning their mobile home in 2010.

    The court ruled that testimony by the victims' relatives saying Shaun Bosse should be executed should not have been allowed, but was harmless error because of other evidence.

    Bosse, 34, was convicted on three counts of first-degree murder and arson in the deaths of 25-year-old Katrina Griffin, 8-year-old Christian Griffin and 6-year-old Chasity Hammer. Their bodies were found July 23, 2010, in their burned mobile home in Dibble, about 40 miles (64 kilometers) south of Oklahoma City.

    "Overwhelming evidence supports the conclusion that all three murders were heinous, atrocious or cruel," Judge Clancy Smith wrote in the ruling.

    Bosse's attorney, Michael Morehead, did not return a phone call seeking comment.

    Autopsy reports say Katrina and Christian were stabbed to death, while Chasity died of smoke inhalation and burns. Prosecutors said she was trapped in a closet, with the door blocked by a chair.

    Prosecutors say Bosse was linked to the crimes in part by pawn tickets found in his wallet showing that, while the home was still burning, he sold more than 100 items taken from it to various pawn shops in Oklahoma City.

    The ruling, and a separate opinion by Presiding Judge Gary Lumpkin, noted that 23 witnesses testified on behalf of Bosse, including 14 who asked that his life be spared.

    "In light of other evidence at trial, including the numerous individuals requesting mercy on behalf of Appellant, the (victims') witnesses' recommendations were harmless beyond a reasonable doubt." Lumpkin wrote.

    "I'm happy for this part of the process to be over for the victims' family and be one step closer to, hopefully, getting some closure," said District Attorney Greg Mashburn.

    The court had previously rejected Bosse's appeal that the relatives' testimony was improper, citing a U.S. Supreme Court ruling, but the high court ruled in October that the testimony during Bosse's sentencing should not have been allowed and sent the case back to the Oklahoma court.

    http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/o...nalty-47641084
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    In today's orders, the United States Supreme Court declined to review Bosse's petition for certiorari.

    Lower Ct: Supreme Court of Oklahoma
    Case Numbers: (D-2012-1128)
    Decision Date: July 24, 2017

    https://www.supremecourt.gov/search....c/17-7232.html

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    On March 6, 2018, Bosse filed a habeas petition in Federal District Court.

    https://dockets.justia.com/docket/ok...cv00204/102695

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    Supreme Court ruling unsettling

    Court’s ruling could open floodgates for felons to walk

    Convicted murderer Shaun M. Bosse and up to an estimated 2,000 other Oklahoma inmates could possibly attempt to get their convictions overturned after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that the federal government has jurisdiction over major crimes involving Indians in the Muscogee (Creek) Nation’s historic reservation.

    Bosse was convicted of killing Katrina Griffin and her two young children, Christian Griffin and Chasity Hammer, at the family’s mobile home near Dibble July 23, 2010.

    Mother and son had been stabbed numerous times. Bosse put Chasity Hammer in a closet and used a chair to wedge the door shut, before setting a fire in the home.

    The jury recommended a 35-year prison sentence and $25,000 fine on Bosse’s first-degree arson conviction.

    Bosse was dating Katrina Griffin after they met online. He murdered the family to cover up his theft of a computer, Play Station video game system and movies belonging to Griffin and her son.

    Bosse is currently sitting on death row for the murders.

    Attorney’s for Bosse, a non-Indian, said the case should have been tried in federal court since the Griffins were citizens of the Chickasaw Nation and the crime was committed on the historic Chickasaw reservation.

    The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in early July the case of child rapist Jimcy McGirt was wrongly tried in state court because he was a member of a tribe and the crime occurred on the Creek reservation.

    Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter said, “The McGirt case does not constitute a get-out-of-prison-free card.

    “We are not going to allow our justice system to be exploited by individuals who have murdered, raped or committed another crime of a serious nature while the federal government considered whether to re-arrest and adjudicate their cases.”

    http://www.purcellregister.com/news/...3f821543f.html
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    District attorneys: Local cases will further clarify

    By Max Bryan
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    McGirt v. Oklahoma isn’t the only landmark case for Native Americans accused of crimes in eastern Oklahoma, district attorneys say.

    Tribal territories in eastern Oklahoma have their own cases that are likely to have the same impact on them as McGirt v. Oklahoma had on Creek Nation defendants in the region. The July 9 McGirt decision prompted the United States Supreme Court to rule virtually all of eastern Oklahoma remains an Indian reservation, meaning members of federally recognized Native American tribes will likely be prosecuted at a federal level for alleged offenses in that part of the state.

    Supreme Court justices in their reasoning of the case cited the Reconstruction Treaty of 1866, which determined the Creek, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Cherokee and Seminole tribes retained the eastern part of Oklahoma. The Reconstruction Treaty was reached after the tribes were removed from their homes to present-day Oklahoma during the Indian Removal Act of 1830.

    Law enforcement officials in eastern Oklahoma are largely operating as they had before the decision, especially when arresting Native Americans who are not members of the Creek Nation. But district attorneys expect decisions like McGirt involving Native American defendants in their own respective districts to have a similar impact.

    “Each of the four (remaining) civilized tribes has its own issues going forward,” said District 16 Attorney Jeff Smith, whose district is in Choctaw Nation land.

    District 27 Attorney Jack Thorp, whose district is on Cherokee land, said he expects the outcome of Bose v. Oklahoma to clear up questions throughout eastern Oklahoma — namely, regarding the specifics of who would be prosecuted at a federal under the ruling. Plaintiff Shaun Michael Bose alleged the state violated his eighth amendment rights in the procedures of his 2012 death penalty case for triple homicide and arson in McClain County, which is on Chickasaw land.

    “The defendant has the burden of proving Indian status and that the location of his crime fell within the boundaries of the purported reservation,” the Oklahoma Criminal Appeals supplemental brief on the case reads.

    Smith said the outcome of Bosse could impact criminal proceedings for Native Americans in his district as well as those in districts on Chickasaw land. This is because the Chickasaw and Choctaw tribes were “almost treated identically” in their treaties with the federal government.

    If not, the Choctaw Nation still has State v. Harold McCurtain, which District 16 Associate Judge Marion Fry ruled could not proceed because of the defendant’s membership to the tribe. McCurtain is accused of lewd molestation in LeFlore County.

    Thorp estimates 20,000-30,000 cases could potentially be turned over from state prosecutorial districts to the Eastern District of Oklahoma from the outcome of McGirt and other similar cases. Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. on Thursday announced the proposal of the Cherokee Nation Reservation, Judicial Expansion and Sovereignty Protection Act, which would allow his tribe to apply for federal funding to pay for the legal services necessary for the potential increase in federal prosecution.

    In the meantime, most district attorneys in eastern Oklahoma “are just trying to find out what the rules are,” Smith said.

    “If McGirt makes one thing clear, longstanding assumptions cannot substitute for clear text,” the Bosse brief reads.

    https://www.swtimes.com/news/2020081...urther-clarify
    "I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
    - Oklahoma Rep. Mike Christian

    "There are some people who just do not deserve to live,"
    - 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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