Lancey Darnell Ray v. Oklahoma
DueProcess HabeasCorpus Securities
Whether Oklahoma Courts can exercise criminal jurisdiction over active duty service members and dependents, and Veterans, based on opinions of state medical examiners without jurisdiction
QUESTIONS PRESENTED Active duty service members, ie., Airmen, Soldiers, Marines, Sailors, and : Space Force alike, with civilian dependents stationed in the continental United States at installations garrisoned by units of the armed forces that are under the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States, oftentimes reside in adjacent local communities outside the installation. Veterans of Foreign Wars and Veterans, after completion of service, oftentimes remain to reside in adjacent local communities, but rely on health care providers at medical facilities on the installation. 1. Whether Oklahoma Courts, under state law, can properly exercise criminal . jurisdiction involving a “separable controversy”, over active duty service members and dependents, and Veterans detained in state custody, based on opinions of state medical examiners where state medical examiners are without jurisdiction to conduct a forensic pathology investigation, whereas federal law provides for a complete forensic pathology investigation by the Armed Forces Medical Examiner. 2. Whether the Oklahoma Court of Appeals’ legal analysis regarding claims of actual innocence comport with the Supreme Court of the United States holding in House v. Bell, 547 U.S. 518, 126 S. Ct. 2064, 165 L. Ed. 2d 1 (2006). 3. Does the term “willful”, as it is employed in the context of Okla. Stat. tit 21 Sec 701.7, subsection C, comport with Fourteenth Amendment Due Process. — Nothing Follows—— i