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A lawyer for a 16-year-old first-degree murder defendant called the conditions at the Oklahoma County Detention Center subhuman and deplorable. The comments were made during a hearing Wednesday where a judge ordered the jail to move the juvenile murder defendant out in the wake of a report from the Oklahoma State Department of Health that found dozens of violations and said the jail needed to move out all juvenile inmates.The county, however, originally said the ban on holding juvenile defendants didn t apply to juveniles charged with first-degree murder. On Wednesday, a judge disagreed. These are still children. They re still deserving of protection, attorney Tommy Adler said while arguing his 16-year-old client needed to be moved out of the Oklahoma County Detention Center immediately.Judge Amy Palumbo agreed and signed the transfer order.The Oklahoma County Jail Trust said it was already finalizing a plan to move the dozen or so juveniles charged with first-degree murder,
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A former Midwest City doctor accused of running a pill mill was convicted Friday of one count of second-degree murder in the death of a 21-year-old patient who suffered an overdose involving prescription opioid drugs.
The jurors, after deliberating more than 24 hours, acquitted Regan Ganoung Nichols, a 60-year-old osteopathic physician, of four other counts of second-degree murder in other patients overdose deaths.
Prosecutors told jurors Nichols showed a blatant disregard for life by prescribing hundreds of pills to each victim without a legitimate medical need.
Nichols faces at least 10 years in prison on the single count. Her sentencing will come at a later date.
Former Oklahoma doctor guilty of murder in opioid death
May 1, 2021
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) A former Oklahoma doctor has been convicted of second-degree murder in the opioid overdose death of a patient, according to state Attorney General Mike Hunter.
Former Midwest City Dr. Regan Nichols was convicted Friday on one of five counts of second-degree murder for the deaths of five patients between 2010 and 2013.
Nichols was acquitted on the remaining four counts.
“The facts and the evidence in this case were clear – through her reckless overprescribing, Regan Nichols put her patients in danger, which led to tragic deaths,” Hunter said.
A Midwest City doctor was found guilty of one out of five second-degree murder charges on Friday.
The Oklahoma County jury deliberated for more than 26 hours before reaching a verdict.
A sequestered jury went back to work on only a few hours of sleep. County officials said some of them fell asleep in the courtroom overnight.
They had a short break on Friday before returning to one of the longest running deliberations in the history of the Oklahoma County courthouse.
“They’ve never told us they’re deadlocked,” said attorney Tommy Adler. “They’ve just told us they want to keep working.”