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2018 Tulsa judicial candidate questionnaires and judicial forum

The June 2018 issue of Tulsa Lawyer Magazine, published by the Tulsa County Bar Association, is the special 2018-2019 election issue. It devotes seven pages to questionnaire responses from the candidates for District Judge and Associate District Judge who will be on the June 26, 2018, primary election ballot. (Two...

Posted by Michael Bates on June 15, 2018 8:45 PM

2018 Tulsa district judge elections

Here are the nuts and bolts of how we elect judges in Tulsa and Pawnee counties.

Posted by Michael Bates on June 11, 2018 6:22 PM

William Kellough's controversial cases

Here's a blog entry unlikely to make anyone happy, but here's the information I'm working with as I consider the race for District Court, District 14, Office 1. There have been several notorious cases involving particularly heinous crimes in which Tulsa County District Judge William Kellough has lightened a sentence...

Posted by Michael Bates on October 28, 2014 7:33 PM

Tulsa County District Court: Re-elect Judge Glassco

Judges are supposed to apply the laws passed by our elected representatives in the legislature. Applying the law faithfully requires faithfully interpreting the words of the law as they are commonly understood. A judicial candidate who uses words in accordance with her own idiosyncratic decisions in an obvious attempt to...

Posted by Michael Bates on October 26, 2014 11:22 PM

Osage County District Court: Re-elect Judge John Kane

We'll start our review of judicial races with an easy one, albeit one that is just outside Tulsa County, although it covers portions of the cities of Tulsa, Skiatook, and Sand Springs. Judicial District 10 consists of Osage County, and it has exactly one district judge. Like all 77...

Posted by Michael Bates on October 26, 2014 9:40 PM

2014 judicial elections: General thoughts

Tomorrow morning, Monday, October 27, 2014, at 8 a.m., I'll be on 1170 KFAQ discussing judicial races on the Pat Campbell Show. (UPDATE: Here is the podcast of my conversation about judicial races with Pat Campbell, Eddie Huff, and Tulsa Beacon publisher Charlie Biggs. Here is a direct link to...

Posted by Michael Bates on October 26, 2014 9:00 PM

Tulsa County judicial candidate forum tonight

A press release from the Tulsa County Bar Association about tonight's judicial candidate forum: The Tulsa County Bar Association is hosting a forum for the public to meet and hear from the candidates running for Tulsa County District Judge. The forum will take place on Tuesday October 26, 2010 at...

Posted by Michael Bates on October 26, 2010 3:24 PM

A guide to Tulsa County and Pawnee County judicial offices, 2010

CORRECTION: 2010/06/14: Judge Linda Morrissey is registered to vote as an Independent, not a Democrat as I previously reported. I regret the error. Her husband, John Nicks, is a former Tulsa County Democratic Party chairman and was a Democratic candidate for Oklahoma Attorney General in 1994 and Tulsa County Commission...

Posted by Michael Bates on June 13, 2010 10:45 PM