Our successes at Norwood.Law tell the story.
We’ve won settlements against foreign product manufacturers. We’ve won settlements against governments for wrongful convictions. We’ve settled over excessive force by the police.
We’ve defeated insurance companies. We’ve defeated banking interests. We’ve defeated the popular host of a police reality show.
Whatever you’re facing, we can have your back.
In a matter of months, Norwood.Law successfully negotiated a total of $26 million in legal settlements and compensation for four men wrongfully convicted in different cases. They spent decades in prison. Judges in Oklahoma ultimately declared each of them fully innocent.
There was no physical evidence in these cases. They all relied on a small number of problematic witnesses.
We would fight tirelessly for you, too.
Maybe your civil rights are being violated by an employer. Maybe you’re being harassed by the government. Maybe you’re fighting to keep your children.
We’ve got your back.
Winner
How can Norwood.Law prove we’re committed?
- Business We took on the Bank of America and won. Consumers in Oklahoma now have the right to a jury trial if a dispute arises over financial services.
- Insurance We persuaded the Oklahoma Supreme Court to get rid of a law that specially favored the insurance industry.
- Need help setting up a business? We can do that, too.
- Civil rights We secured one of the largest settlements ever for police excessive force in the history of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma. A man was shot and killed by a law enforcement officer.
- Injury and liability We sued a foreign maker of robotic lawn mowers after one such mower had harmed a child. The family recruited Norwood.Law to secure a favorable settlement with the foreign manufacturer.
- Ebike In a similar case, we sued another foreign manufacturer, this time of electric bicycles. That case, too, was settled favorably. Our client was injured after one of the bikes wouldn’t stop.
- Family Oklahoma hosted one of the biggest divorce cases in American history during 2014. The former wife took in $975 million. If you’re going through a divorce, trust us to fight for you and your interests.
- Criminal defense Norwood.Law helped shave years from the sentence of a man who was convicted of second-degree murder.
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- The popular host of a police reality show who was also a Tulsa detective tried and failed to send another Norwood.Law client to prison for murder. This client had already spent two decades in prison for a wrongful conviction.
- We represented a man accused of murder whose sentence was dramatically reduced by 25 years. The conviction dropped from murder to assault and battery.
- Post-conviction We succeeded in getting five men declared innocent in unrelated cases. They’d spent from 20 years to 50 years locked up for crimes they didn’t commit.
At Norwood.Law, we’ve done it all.
Fighter
Have you been wrongly accused of a crime or hurt by a corporation or harassed at work?
Let Joe Norwood be your voice and fight for you in court.
He’s earned media attention around the world by helping to free five wrongfully convicted people who were sent to prison for years upon years. They endured a grinding, grueling journey before the courts realized what was happening.
All five were eventually declared fully innocent.
Call for a consultation at 918-582-6464.
Norwood.Law will work just as tirelessly for you.
We do more than criminal defense and post-convictions. Joe also practices business, personal injury, civil rights, family law, and more.
Need help with a will, trust, or estate? Norwood.Law can do that, too.
Unfair
Three of our lawsuits in recent years led to multi-million dollar settlements. These cases resulted from wrongful convictions where our clients spent decades behind bars in Oklahoma for murders and assaults they didn’t commit.
Our Atchison lawsuit filed in 2021 alleged that Tulsa had suffered from “a large number of wrongful arrests, prosecutions, and/or convictions stemming from misconduct.”
More from our petition:
- Three teen witnesses recanted their testimony against Atchison and said they were coerced by Tulsa law enforcement.
- There was no physical evidence.
- A witness said Atchison was trying to help and yelled for someone to call 911.
Knowing that things can go so terribly wrong in the court system is why a fierce advocate like Joe Norwood should matter so much to you.
Victories
Want a deeper look at our wrongful-conviction cases? They’ve earned us global media attention:
- Malcolm Scott and Demarchoe Carpenter Declared innocence of a 1994 drive-by shooting in Tulsa. They wrongly served 20 years in Oklahoma’s prison system. We settled a lawsuit with the city of Tulsa for $15 million.
- Glynn Simmons Longest-serving wrongfully convicted man in America at 48 years behind bars. There was no physical evidence and just one questionable witness who was shot during the robbery. After getting Glynn freed, we got him a settlement of $7.15 million.
- Joe Norwood said about Simmons after the settlement: “No physical evidence ever connected him to the crime. The only ‘evidence’ against him was grossly falsified police line-ups and reports and police manipulation of a victim who briefly witnessed the crime before being horribly injured during it.”
- Perry Lott With our help, Lott was declared innocent of a 1987 rape conviction. He’d spent 30 years in prison. Prosecutors had relied on one witness. Lott is now eligible for compensation.
Freedom
Client Corey Atchison is our most recent wrongful conviction to become a multi-million dollar settlement.
According to our federal lawsuit, Tulsa police pressured Atchison to confess to a 1991 shooting death. He wouldn’t. So police began to pressure witnesses.
That led Atchison to prison for three decades. But with our help, Atchison proved his innocence. Now he’s being compensated for his unfair treatment by the government. From our lawsuit:
“[Atchison] has been deprived of all the basic pleasures of human experience, which all free people enjoy as a matter of right, including the freedom to live one’s life as an autonomous human being.”
Taxpayer burden
In both the Corey Atchison and Malcolm Scott cases, witnesses said they were coerced by police into naming our clients as the killers. And in both cases, witnesses recanted their testimony.
After 28 years behind bars, a Tulsa judge reviewed the Atchison case and came to the conclusion that Corey was fully innocent. Among her reasons:
- The police tactics were “appalling.”
- “Everybody realizes that eyewitness testimony is inherently unreliable.”
- The teen witnesses who named Atchison “were coerced.”
- There was no physical evidence.
- Recordings with witnesses disappeared.
Joseph M. Norwood is a Tulsa attorney with the courtroom expertise you need. Contact his office at 918-582-6464.