By: News 9
Oklahoma County District Attorney David Prater said he will not seek re-election after this current term.
Prater said he will retire at the end of his term in January 2023. He will have served 16 years as Oklahoma County s district attorney. After the filing period in April of 2018, when I learned that I would not have an opponent, I decided that I would retire after completing my current term. My retirement date is January 2023. At that time, I will have served 16 years as the elected district attorney. That’s long enough, Prater told News 9.
Prater was a law officer at the Cleveland County Sheriff s Office and the Norman Police Department before earning his law degree from the University of Oklahoma.
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Julius Jones (pictured) will receive a “stage two” commutation hearing after the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board voted 3-1 to advance his commutation application past the initial summary review stage. Jones maintains his innocence in the 1999 murder of Paul Howell, for which he was sentenced to death in 2002. The board’s March 8 vote means that Jones will receive a more in-depth review of his case for clemency and affords him the opportunity to present witnesses and speak to the board members directly.
More than six million people have signed a petition calling for Jones’ release, and his attorneys announced on March 1 that an Arkansas prisoner, Roderick Wesley, had come forward to say that Jones’ co-defendant, Chris Jordan, had told him that he had killed a man and that someone was doing time on death row for his crime. Wesley is the third person to whom Jordan confessed about killing Howell and setting up Jones.
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Election petitions were due Tuesday from candidates who hope to appear on the May 18 primary ballot, and a number of races appear to have drawn few competitors. Which may be just as well, because that leaves more room for judicial candidates.
There are nine spots available in Allegheny County’s Common Pleas Court. In all, 39 candidates are seeking them, either as Democrats or Republicans or – because judicial candidates can seek the nomination of either party – both.
Happily for voters, perhaps, and the people who lay out the ballots, history suggests some of those candidates will withdraw between now and the primary. Other candidates for all the races on the ballot may be removed against their will if defects are found in their petitions in the days ahead. (Conversely, some candidates may seek to run write-in campaigns in hopes of appearing on the November ballot without filing petitions first.)
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