“We were watching it unfold on Facebook, people crying out for a need,” Hutt-Greenman said. “We watched it for about half an hour and saw no one step up and said forget that … We’re going to show what compassion and love look like.”
“In my 30 years of experience I’ve never seen a plaintiff dismiss a lawsuit with a payment and written apology to the defendant,” said Randall Calvert, who was the lead attorney for James Glover and his dealership.
Oklahoma landlords are increasingly seeking other routes to get tenants who have failed to pay rent out of their homes, attorneys for both sides say, even when the tenant presents the landlord with a declaration from the CDC to protect them from eviction.
While the numbers of homeless people are expected to rise because of the pandemic and accompanying economic downturn, it is also having an effect on how the count is conducted in the state.
Ward, who was twice convicted for the 1984 abduction and murder of Ada convenience store worker Donna “Denise” Haraway and featured in John Grisham’s “Innocent Man” book, had his conviction overturned by the district court late December
