OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - The
Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals has upheld the life prison sentence
of a 30-year-old man who was convicted of first-degree murder in the
death of a man in Altus.
The five-judge court unanimously affirmed the conviction and sentence of Patrick Robinson in a decision made public Friday.
A jury in Jackson County
found Robinson guilty in the May 2009 shooting, stabbing death and
robbery of 34-year-old Hai Phan outside a southwest Altus apartment
complex.
Robinson acknowledged he was a drug dealer but said he did not know his four co-defendants planned to rob Phan.
One co-defendant pleaded
guilty to murder and conspiracy in the case and is serving a life
sentence. The others pleaded guilty to charges ranging from conspiracy
to commit robbery to being an accessory.
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