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Charles Anthony Holmes v. Oklahoma

IFP petition · Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma, No. PC-2025-593 · judgment September 3, 2025


Certiorari denied · December 8, 2025

Questions presented

  1. Whether 21 O.S. § 645, 644B are unconstitutional, as applied to Petitioner, because they violate the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution?

  2. Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals failed to reasonably apply this Court’s holding in Strickland v. Washington where Petitioner’s Appellate Counsel failed to raise or adequately raise the constitutionality of 21 O.S. § 645, 644, as applied to Petitioner?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Charles A. Holmes

For respondent
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Case

Subject area
Criminal Procedure (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Order
Order list, December 8, 2025 · Certiorari denied

Proceedings

  1. Dec 08 2025
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Nov 13 2025
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/5/2025.
  3. Sep 30 2025
    Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due October 31, 2025)