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Oklahoma is rethinking its family laws
By G.W. Schulz An effort underway in Oklahoma could lead to changes in how the state handles child custody and divorce. That could mean new
In divorce, who comes first?
By G.W. Schulz Oklahoma ranks as one of the highest in the nation for domestic abuse and violence. Fortunately, if you’re escaping an abusive relationship
They took his innocence. We’re getting it back.
By G.W. Schulz In 2023, Norwood.Law earned an extraordinary lifetime achievement that attracted national and international attention. But even that wasn’t enough for us. First, Norwood.Law
Our clients were innocent. Now Tulsa will pay millions.
Our clients were innocent. Now Tulsa will pay millions. By G.W. Schulz Norwood.Law is getting two men the compensation they deserve after spending two decades
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.