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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 ...
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]
Non-publication of legal opinions is the practice of a court issuing unpublished opinions. An unpublished opinion is a decision of a court that is not available for citation as precedent because the court deems the case to have insufficient precedential value. In the system of common law, each judicial decision becomes part of the body of law ...
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Case Ruling Right 1962 Robinson v. California: A state cannot make a person's status as an addict a crime; only behaviors can be criminal. 1st 1968 Powell v. Texas: Similarly to Robinson v. California, a state may not criminalize the status of alcoholism itself; the state may only prohibit behaviors. 8th
A costly and secret campaign is being waged by special interest groups to remove Oklahoma Supreme Court justices. Opinion: A Supreme Court scandal humiliated Oklahoma before. A new one is brewing.
Morgan v. Illinois, 504 U.S. 719 (1992) — A defendant may challenge for cause a prospective juror who would automatically vote to impose the death penalty in every capital case. Arave v. Creech, 507 U.S. 463 (1993) Johnson v. Texas, 509 U.S. 350 (1993) Simmons v. South Carolina, 512 U.S. 154 (1994) Cooper v. Oklahoma, 517 U.S. 348 (1996 ...
"At the time, only a handful of public defenders' offices across the nation had mitigations specialists," said Rust, who went on to do the same type of work for the Oklahoma Indigent Defense System.