223 ABA Journal Oklahoma articles.
Jul 30, 2019 9:27 AM CDT
Apr 24, 2019 10:47 AM CDT
An Oklahoma sheriff who battled with a judge over what she thinks to be dangerous jail conditions announced her resignation Monday.
But Sheriff Terry Barnett of Nowata County is not…
Mar 21, 2019 4:33 PM CDT
Feb 28, 2019 11:45 AM CST
A former Pennsylvania district attorney has been suspended from law practice partly because she created a fake Facebook page to investigate banned sales of bath salts being used as drugs.
…Feb 19, 2019 7:00 AM CST
A courthouse in Claremore, Oklahoma, was evacuated and closed Monday after bedbugs were discovered on a lawyer’s jacket.
Rogers County Sheriff Scott Walton gave the details to the Tulsa…
Feb 5, 2019 11:30 AM CST An Oklahoma lawyer charged with solicitation of murder and racketeering is going on the offensive with a statement claiming the charges are motivated by “vindictiveness and jealousy.” Winston Connor, 54,…
Jan 24, 2019 3:44 PM CST Nov 7, 2018 9:33 AM CST A law professor and associate dean for academic affairs at the Oklahoma University College of Law voluntarily resigned Tuesday after his discriminatory writings about women and same-sex marriage in a…
Oct 3, 2018 2:45 PM CDT The group Still She Rises seeks to address criminalization and incarceration of women in Oklahoma, focusing on helping indigent mothers in northern Tulsa, a historically impoverished and underresourced community. Still She Rises began taking clients in January 2017 as the first pro bono law office in the country specifically dedicated to representing mothers involved in the criminal justice system. Oct 1, 2018 1:45 AM CDT Viewers have to remember that Gwinnett County Jail is just that: a county jail. That means almost all the inmates are coming in off the streets. Don’t get this confused with a prison. You can think of county jail as a kind of lockup purgatory. Sep 20, 2018 6:00 AM CDT Patrick Murphy doesn’t deny participating in the murder and mutilation of George Jacobs in 1999.
Sep 1, 2018 2:20 AM CDT The Senate on Tuesday confirmed U.S. Magistrate Judge Charles Barnes Goodwin for a federal judgeship, though the ABA Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary had given him a “not qualified”…
Aug 29, 2018 3:07 PM CDT The ABA Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary has given a “not qualified” rating to a lawyer nominated to a federal judgeship in Oklahoma. The “not qualified” rating for nominee…
Aug 24, 2018 12:01 PM CDT Aug 23, 2018 6:00 AM CDTLawyer accused of murder solicitation says jealousy motivated charges against him
Ballot measures give felons the right to vote, overturn Jim Crow-era jury law and legalize marijuana
Beyond the fight for Congress, voters across the country were presented with major criminal justice reform initiatives on Tuesday's ballot.
Oklahoma University College of Law associate dean resigns over sexist, homophobic writings
Legal aid program in Oklahoma is dedicated to representing moms in trouble
Netflix’s new series ‘First and Last’ accurately details many aspects of county jail life
How a rural murder case could return nearly half the state of Oklahoma to tribal control
But it’s possible that his conviction doesn’t count. As Murphy argued in a habeas appeal to the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at Denver, he’s a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, as was Jacobs, and the murder took place on land that was part of the tribe’s reservation as defined by an 1866 treaty.Oklahoma judicial nominee rated ‘not qualified’ by ABA wins confirmation
ABA committee gives ‘not qualified’ rating to a second Oklahoma judicial nominee
Judge resigns after he is accused of using contempt powers to jail more than 200 people
An Oklahoma judge has agreed to resign after he was accused of using his contempt powers to jail people for infractions such as leaving sunflower seeds in his courtroom and talking in court.
