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Tulsa police celebrity Sean ‘Sticks’ Larkin said our client shot a man five times. A jury disagreed.
Lt. Sean “Sticks” Larkin of the Tulsa Police Department didn’t seem aware of the conflict in his 2021 testimony during a shooting trial.
Longest serving wrongful conviction exoneree in US history, Glynn Simmons, has reached partial settlement of $7.15 million in his civil rights lawsuit
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 13, 2024
OKLAHOMA CITY – A young Black man wrongfully imprisoned and sentenced to death a half century ago, Glynn Simmons, has reached a partial settlement of $7,150,000 in his civil rights lawsuit against the cities and police who falsified evidence and suppressed exonerating evidence to frame him for murder.
After a judge freed him, Tulsa police tried to send a Norwood.Law client back to prison
During a recorded conversation on Aug. 12, 2019, Lt. Sean “Sticks” Larkin of the Tulsa Police Department made an extraordinary statement.
How Oklahoma became home to one of the costliest divorces in history
When matrimony became acrimony for one of Oklahoma’s wealthiest power couples, their divorce in 2014 attracted national headlines. That’s because the breakup resulted in what was reported to be one of the largest divorce settlements in history.
Will Oklahoma lawmakers boost compensation for exonerees?
Efforts are continuing in Oklahoma by advocates to raise the compensation given to people who serve years or decades in prison for crimes they didn’t commit. Under current Oklahoma law, a person must be pardoned by the governor or formally declared innocent by a judge in order to be eligible for any payouts to the wrongfully convicted. No matter how many years a person has served in prison, they are only granted a small, lump sum.
Two Tulsa brothers were wrongfully convicted in separate cases. How?
Two eyewitnesses and night-time visibility. That was all Tulsa County prosecutors needed in 1995 to send Malcolm Scott and Demarchoe Carpenter to Oklahoma’s prison system for murder.
The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers
In Shakespeare’s “Henry VI,” a gang of outlaw insurgents plots to overthrow the government. They’re angered by the everyday oppression of everyday people. One of the subversives utters a line that will be popularly recited for centuries to come: “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.”
America’s longest serving wrongfully convicted man has filed suit in Oklahoma
An innocent man Norwood.Law helped prove was wrongfully convicted of murder has filed a lawsuit in federal court over an ordeal that has consumed most of his life.
How Norwood.Law client Glynn Simmons served the longest sentence in America for a wrongful conviction
An Oklahoma judge has formally declared Norwood.Law client Glynn Simmons innocent of a 1974 murder for which he spent 48 years in prison.
Are you unsafe? Need a protective order in Oklahoma? Help is here.
Going through a messy divorce? Haunted by a serial stalker? If a former spouse, or love interest, or co-worker has become your harasser, we’re here to protect you. Norwood.Law will use every means available to help ensure your safety.
OK lawmakers are reversing key justice reforms passed by voters
State lawmakers in Oklahoma City seeking to curtail the wishes expressed by voters in a ballot measure seven years ago have succeeded with the passage of a new law. State Question 780 first passed overwhelmingly by voters in 2016.
Injured in Oklahoma? Here are 7 important promises we’re making to you
If you’ve suffered a personal injury, you don’t need or want a lecture from a lawyer about what laws exist. You need an advocate who can show you precisely what those laws can do to help people who have been victimized.