In Tulsa, Oklahoma; a pedestrian is not legally required to produce and hand over state-issued identification to a police officer during a casual or consensual encounter. This is not an absolute right, as the legal obligation to identify yourself hinges entirely on the nature of the police interaction.
Though known legally as voir dire and colloquially as jury selection, trial practice in Tulsa County is functionally jury deselection—an elimination process rendered structurally unfair to criminal defendants long before attorneys ever enter the courtroom. Because the jury pools in Tulsa County are chosen based on DMV records, it is structurally skewed from the moment the summons are mailed.
We have seen recently how having too low a bond allowed defendants with long violent criminal records to get back out on the street, only to commit more crimes and in some cases the death of innocent people. Judges have a difficult decision in balancing the constitutional rights of a defendant, who is innocent until proven guilty,
