Doyle v. State

1989 OK CR 85, 785 P.2d 317, 1989 Okla. Crim. App. LEXIS 89, 1989 WL 156421
CourtCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma
DecidedDecember 26, 1989
DocketF-86-356
StatusPublished
Cited by35 cases

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Bluebook
Doyle v. State, 1989 OK CR 85, 785 P.2d 317, 1989 Okla. Crim. App. LEXIS 89, 1989 WL 156421 (Okla. Ct. App. 1989).

Opinions

OPINION

LUMPKIN, Judge:

Appellant David Lee Doyle was tried by jury and convicted in the District Court of [320]*320Cleveland County, Case No. CRF-85-423, of Robbery, with a Dangerous Weapon (21 O.S.1981, § 791), Two Counts of Kidnapping (21 O.S.1981, § 741), and Four Counts of Forcible Sodomy (21 O.S.1981, § 888), and in Case No. CRF-85-420 of Three Counts of First Degree Rape (21 O.S.1981, § 1114). The jury recommended as punishment twenty (20) years imprisonment for Robbery with a Dangerous Weapon, fifty (50) years imprisonment for one count of Kidnapping, thirty (30) years imprisonment for one count of Kidnapping, one hundred (100) years imprisonment for each count of Forcible Sodomy, and one hundred and twenty five (125) years imprisonment for each count of First Degree Rape. The trial court sentenced accordingly. From this judgment and sentence, Appellant appeals. We affirm.

On April 20, 1985, C.P., a high school senior from Tulsa, and her sister were in Norman, Oklahoma for a college fraternity party. There she met R.S., a young man she knew from high school. At approximately 2:00 a.m. on the 21st, they left the party with R.S. walking C.P. to the' place where she was staying the weekend. As they neared the area known as Campus Corner the Appellant approached them and attempted to pick a fight with R.S. When R.S. refused to fight, Appellant placed himself in between C.P. and R.S., put his arms around them and accompanied them down the street. As C.P. and R:S. attempted to get away, Appellant tightened his grip. Appellant, armed with a knife, forced R.S. and C.P. to walk a flight of stairs to a nearby garage apartment. As soon as all three were inside the apartment, Appellant locked the four locks on the door. Appellant ordered his victims into the bathroom and forced them at knifepoint to remove all their clothes and jewelry. R.S. was forced into the bathtub and C.P. was ordered to tie his hands behind him with black electrical tape. Not satisfied with the way C.P. performed the task, Appellant hit her in the face with the back of his hand. Appellant then finished tying R.S.’s hands and feet with the tape; and placed the tape over R.S.’s mouth. R.S. was forced into a closet which was then locked.

Holding the knife to her back, Appellant directed C.P. into the front room. Pushing her down on the bed, Appellant-attempted to rape her. Unable to achieve full penetration, Appellant jerked her from the bed and forced her to sit in a bathtub of hot water. C.P. attempted to grab the knife from Appellant but he closed his fist and struck, her in the face. He then tied her hands behind her back and taped her mouth with the black electrical tape. C.P. was forced back to the bed in the front room where the Appellant completed the rape. During this time Appellant asked C.P. numerous questions. When she did not answer to his satisfaction, he would hit her in the face so that her nose began to bleed profusely. Convincing Appellant that she was unable to breath with the tape and blood covering her face, he put the knife to her face and cut the tape at her mouth. Appellant then forced her to orally sodomize him. Unsatisfied with her performance and bloody appearance, Appellant allowed C.P. to wash the blood from her face and hair. After washing her face, Appellant forced C.P. back to the bed where he made her get on her hands and knees before committing the second rape. Unable to understand why C.P. was resisting him, Appellant laid down, held the knife to C.P.’s arm and forced her to lay on top of him. After this third rape of C.P., Appellant forced her to again orally sodomize him. Appellant repeatedly told C.P. that if she did anything to him, he would kill her. Appellant pushed C.P. back against a wall and told her that one of them had to die and which did she want it to be, her or R.S.

Appellant proceeded to open the door to the closet where R.S. had been detained and kicked him and hit him across the face before pulling him out of the closet. Removing the tape from his mouth, Appellant forced R.S. to orally sodomize him. Appellant then forced both C.P. and R.S. to lie in the bathtub and engage in oral sodomy. Pulling them out of the tub, the Appellant pointed the knife at them, and repeatedly told them that one of them had to die. As the Appellant was about to plunge the knife into the chest of R.S., C.P. got the [321]*321Appellant’s attention by shouting at him. Throughout the ordeal, Appellant questioned C.P. about her personal life. These questions evolved into statements by Appellant that he and C.P. were husband and wife and that they would always be together. C.P. eventually decided to play along with Appellant and told him that she was his wife and that R.S. had merely given her a ride home. This satisfied Appellant so that he allowed R.S. to get dressed. With orders not to call the police, R.S. was allowed to leave.

As R.S. left the apartment, Appellant told C.P. that he did not trust R.S. because he would probably call the police, so they needed to go somewhere else. Allowing C.P. to get dressed, Appellant accompanied her down the street making periodic threats on her life if she tried to get away. Walking across the street through a church parking lot, Appellant forced C.P. into a wooden shed. Once inside Appellant spotted a can of red spray paint. Forcing C.P. to turn around and pull down her pants, Appellant sprayed the red paint over her back and up and down her legs. Directing her to turn around and pull up her shirt, Appellant continued to spray the red paint on her chest and the front of her legs. When C.P. asked Appellant why he was doing this, he responded that he wanted to see what she would “look like all cut up and bloody and pieces.”

Finished with the red paint, C.P. was again compelled at knifepoint to orally sodomize Appellant. As Appellant threatened to rape her a fourth time, C.P. convinced him to let her remove the pants that were down at her ankles. As she removed the pants she kicked Appellant with her right foot and attempted to run out of the shed. Appellant grabbed her left foot but she was able to jerk it away and run down the street. She ran to the first house she saw and was let in to call the police.

At trial, Appellant’s sole defense was that of insanity at the time of the offense. John Torro, a certified drug and alcohol counselor, testified that he had worked with the Appellant from January 1982 until July 1982. He stated that Appellant suffered from moderate to severe alcohol and multiple chemical addiction and that individuals with that level of addiction were prone to experience blackouts. Dan Cor-ley, a psychologist with the Department of Corrections, testified that he treated Appellant while he was on work release and that Appellant suffered from an unsocial personality disorder. Phillip Short, a psychiatrist, testified that he met with Appellant in the Cleveland County Detention Center in August 1985. During a two hour interview the Appellant described his history of alcohol abuse, an incident in which he was molested, and gave his version of the facts surrounding these charges. Dr. Short testified that he concluded Appellant was not psychotic but was probably highly intoxicated at the time of the commission of the offense. In rebuttal, the State presented Dr. R.D. Garcia, a forensic psychiatrist who performed the court ordered examination of Appellant at Eastern State Hospital. He testified that his tests revealed no long term chronic alcohol problem by Appellant and stated that it would be physically impossible for an individual to have committed the alleged offenses during an alcoholic blackout.

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