How do judges of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals / Joined 1989 / Served to 1998

James F. Lane

Judge, Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

James F. Lane was a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals, who joined the court in 1989. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1931 · age 95
Tenure: 1989–1998 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1989	Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals	–	–

Education

Oklahoma Baptist University

Judicial Record

In our data, Lane authored 204 published opinions for the court (1989–1999), plus 25 dissents and 82 concurrences. Most cited: Mayes v. State (194 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 184 of these were attributed to Lane by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1994	Mayes v. State· Concurrence†	887 P.2d 1288	194
1995	Cargle v. State· Concurrence†	909 P.2d 806	189
1997	Walker v. State· Dissent†	933 P.2d 327	172
1995	Romano v. State· Concurrence†	909 P.2d 92	159
1996	Parker v. State· Concurrence†	917 P.2d 980	149
1997	Hung Thanh Le v. State· Concurrence†	947 P.2d 535	137
1993	Paxton v. State· Concurrence†	867 P.2d 1309	137
1995	Taylor v. State· Concurrence†	889 P.2d 319	124
1993	Hooks v. State· Concurrence†	862 P.2d 1273	118
1996	Charm v. State· Dissent†	924 P.2d 754	116
1991	Sellers v. State· Concurrence†	809 P.2d 676	116
1994	Snow v. State	876 P.2d 291	113
1997	Ledbetter v. State· Concurrence†	933 P.2d 880	111
1991	Berget v. State	824 P.2d 364	108
1995	Duckett v. State· Concurrence†	919 P.2d 7	100

Showing the 15 most-cited of 313 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was James F. Lane on?: James F. Lane was a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals.

Sources

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9 years on the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).