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The Oklahoma Indigent Defense System is the system in Oklahoma that provides trial, appellate, and post-conviction criminal defense services to persons judicially determined to be entitled to legal counsel at expense to the state. The Oklahoma Indigent Defense System was created by and is responsible for implementing the Oklahoma Indigent ...
The document was a 2001 memo from the Tulsa Police Department’s legal advisor at the time, telling the Indigent Defense System that the rape kit Jamerson was seeking had been in an evidence ...
Under Oklahoma law on indigent defense, Albert could only bill up to $20,000 for his work on the case, and his co-counsel, Lance Phillips, could bill $5,000 — not nearly enough money to fund a ...
A motion was made by Ketchum's defense attorney, Brecken Wagner, who represented Ketchum pro-bono, to rule Ketchum indigent and allow Wagner to withdraw and appoint the Oklahoma Indigent Defense ...
Ake v. Oklahoma, 470 U.S. 68 (1985), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment required the state to provide a psychiatric evaluation to be used on behalf of an indigent criminal defendant if he needed it. [1] [2]
Ake v. Oklahoma: Indigent criminal defendants have a right to a competency evaluation BOR, 14th 1996 Cooper v. Oklahoma: the burden for proving incompetency is only preponderance; due process would be violated if the burden is required to be carried by clear and convincing evidence.
All of the suspects except Cullum are represented by public defenders, said Tim Laughlin, executive director of the Oklahoma Indigent Defense System. Laughlin declined to comment Wednesday afternoon.
The Tulsa world also reported that the "case drew immediate attention" because Wilkens's defense, battered woman syndrome, was "fairly new and virtually untested in Oklahoma courts." [ 5 ] April Wilkens did not take a gun to the house, and stayed there after the killing until police arrived, covering the body with a blanket and making no ...