while she was driving 65 mph and was still accelerating at impact. The impact caused the car to roll and its driver was killed, and a passenger suffered several injuries. LaFortune sentenced Wheeler to 25 years in prison. Christopher David Mitchell case Judge LaFortune presided over Defendant Christopher David Mitchell's second-degree felony murder case. Mitchell was charged with first hitting a motorcycle with 2 occupants, injuring both, fleeing that scene at 75 mph and then crashing into the vehicle of a 22-year-old woman, killing her. Her husband termed her death as “a murder, not an accident”. LaFortune sentenced Mitchell to life in prison after he entered a blind guilty plea. Notable first-degree murder cases Judge LaFortune has presided over many jury trials in first-degree murder cases. Isaac Luna Ashton murder case Defendant Isaac Luna Ashton was convicted by a jury of shooting and killing 3 unarmed individuals at close range. LaFortune sentenced Ashton to 2 consecutive life without parole terms for the murders. He had earlier denied Ashton's request for immunity under Oklahoma's “Stand Your Ground” law. LaFortune was affirmed on appeal by the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals in a published decision. Gilcrease Expressway murder Judge LaFortune presided over the jury trials of David Ruble and Travis Lozada, who were convicted of felony murder first-degree in the random slaying of a 14-year-old girl who was innocently traveling home with her family along the Gilcrease Expressway after a day of recreation at Keystone Lake. He sentenced Ruble to a life term plus 10 years and Lozada to life in prison without parole plus 10 years. At the sentencing of Lozada, LaFortune noted, “This concludes one of the most tragic stories of Tulsa County criminal justice history. A young girl was shot basically at random in a botched, poorly planned robbery.” LaFortune was affirmed on appeal in Ruble's case. Papa John’s Pizza murder Judge LaFortune presided over the trial of Frankie Jackson Jr. and the sentencing of his 2 co-defendants, Jermaine Savory and Damian Anderson. They were charged with murder in the fatal shooting of a Papa John's truck driver while he was making a delivery and unloading his truck behind a Papa John's pizza restaurant in the early morning hours. He sentenced Jackson, who was convicted of felony murder by a jury, to life in prison and Savory, who pleaded guilty to first-degree murder, to life in prison. Anderson was