Oklahoma Judicial Center Case Summary

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Comparing Courts. The Oklahoma City University School of Law and the Oklahoma Judicial Center both have rich history in their structures and location. The OCU Law was once Oklahoma High School and the former Willey Post Building was transformed into the Oklahoma Judicial Center. Both buildings are extremely beautiful and very grand. The Oklahoma Judicial Center houses Oklahoma's appellant courts, including the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals and the Supreme Court of Oklahoma. The tenth circuit court held proceedings at OCU Law. There were six unrelated cases on the docket. There were only two judges present for the oral arguments. Judge Brisco was sick, but she will still be on the panel and would review all the briefs. The court asked each party to provide a J-28 letter for any case that they discussed in their oral argument but did not have briefed. The judges thanked several of the attorneys for the level of writing in their briefs.
Case One. The attorneys each had fifteen minutes to make their oral argument. Neither side saved time to rebuttal. The plaintiff claimed the district courts abused its discretion and asked the
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This was the only case that had a public defender. Attorney, Josh Lee, was seeking declaratory judgement on the Armed Career Criminal Act. Mr. Lee discussed the difference between simple robbery and aggravated robbery. He was the only attorney to cite a persuasive but unpublished case. He argued that there were videos of the crime footage, but he did not try to obtain them. The judges agreed that the attorney wasted tax money and the Court's time because he did not attempt to access the videos. The state's attorney, Jerry Magnum, claimed he had two affidavits testifying that the video receipts were a mistake. He could not submit the affidavits into evidence because they were not submitted at the district court proceedings. He told the judge that he would be happy to have the case remanded so he could submit the new