OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - An
attorney for a man who was sentenced to death in the fatal shooting of a
state trooper almost nine years ago has asked the Oklahoma Court of
Criminal Appeals to modify his sentence to life in prison.
Defense attorney Lee Ann
Peters made the request Tuesday during oral arguments in the appeal of
Ricky Malone, who was convicted of first-degree murder in trooper Nik
Green's 2003 shooting death.
Investigators say Malone
shot Green with the trooper's gun after Green found him in a car that
contained a mobile methamphetamine lab.
Assistant Attorney General Seth Branham urged the court to uphold the death sentence.
The court previously
overturned the death sentence and ordered a new sentencing trial. A
Comanche County judge re-sentenced Malone to death in 2010.
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