Coni’s untested rape kit sat on a shelf in Tulsa for seven years. Oklahoma City police told her the kit didn’t exist and closed her case. They finally found it just weeks ago.
The bill would allow someone convicted of a hate crime against an officer to receive a sentence of death or life without parole.
I got hooked on journalism while working at Oklahoma State University’s independent student newspaper, The O’Colly.
In a press release sent out to reporters on Thursday evening, Sen. Paul Scott, R-Duncan, said he filed the bill because he hoped to “stop state funds from providing healthcare to pregnant illegal immigrants.”
The Soon-to-Be-Sooners program provided pregnancy and maternity services to about 9,800 women in fiscal year 2018, according to data provided by the Oklahoma Health Care Authority.
Methamphetamine had a part in 330 overdose deaths in Oklahoma in 2017 — up 136 percent from 2012.
“They (sex offenders) just won’t register,” Adams said. “And that’s what happened. Our number of registered sex offenders has went down and our number of arrests has just skyrocketed.
Tulsa County District Judge Sharon Holmes said during a status conference that Corey Atchison’s case will advance in a second evidentiary hearing in January.
