Over the past 15 years on this website, we've routinely thanked our state's judicial branch for being the lone outpost of logic and reason in the Oklahoma polito-sphere, and doing its part to protect us from some of the more unconstitutional and insane overreaches of government by Oklahoma lawmakers, governors, corrupt law enforcement officials, etc.
Well, I guess that was fun while it lasted.
Yesterday afternoon, The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals reinstated a murder conviction for Tommy Ward – one of the subjects of The Innocent Man book and Netflix series who's spent most of his life in prison for a murder that he likely didn't commit.