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Brian Boeheim
Know Your Rights: Walking in Oklahoma

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.

Know Your Rights: Walking in Oklahoma
Brian Boeheim
Has the Truth Lost its Bite?

Younger Oklahoma jurors, accustomed to a world of filtered selfies and carefully constructed online narratives, might be more forgiving.  They may be less likely to see past lies as indicative of a fundamental character flaw for truthfulness in criminal trials.

Has the Truth Lost its Bite?

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Is Tulsa County’s Jury Selection Process Unfair?

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Is Tulsa County’s Jury Selection Process Unfair?

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.