By: Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — A felony charge has been dismissed by a Payne County judge against an ex-convict, who was accused of possessing a stolen vehicle in Cushing on April Fool’s Day of 2020 — about two weeks after he was released from prison, court records show.
The case was dropped by the prosecution on Jan. 29 against Brandon Michael Ray Thompson, 40, two weeks after court-appointed defense attorney Royce Hobbs successfully argued to District Judge Phillip Corley that his arrest should be suppressed, court records show.
According to the state Department of Corrections, Thompson had previously been convicted in Payne County of:
* carrying marijuana into the county jail in 2015, for which he was originally in 2016 placed on 10 years of probation except 274 days in jail, but that sentence was revoked six months later to nine years and 91 days in prison from which he was released on March 14, 2020;
* drug possession in 2015, for which he was given the same concurrent sentence as above;
* first-degree burglary in 2007, for which he was given in 2008 a five-year prison term of which he served four years and four months;
* assault and battery on a police officer in 2007, for which he was given in 2008 a concurrent five-year prison term of which he served three years and five months;
* assault and/or battery with a dangerous weapon in 2004, for which he was given in 2008 a concurrent five-year prison term of which he served two years and three months;
* assault and battery on a police officer in 2003, for which his sentence was originally deferred, but changed in 2008 to a concurrent five-year prison term of which he served two and one-half years.
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