Raye Dawn Smith, 27, was yesterday formally sentenced to 27 years in prison following her conviction by a Creek County jury on charges of enabling child abuse.
Rather than ask for mercy, Smith used her court appearance to speak to her former mother-in-law.
At sentencing Smith looked at her former mother-in-law Kathie Briggs and said, “Kathie, I [...]
Disgraced former Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher, 67, (D-Tulsa) who last Friday lost his appeal of his February 2006 conviction for embezzlement and perjury has checked into the Oklahoma County Jail to begin serving his three year sentence.
Fisher has been under house arrest at his home in Tulsa most of the time since his conviction [...]
At long last disgraced former Oklahoma state senator Gene Stipe is in the custody of the feds, if only for up to 30 days in order that he receives a mental evaluation.
He actually reported to the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri on Monday morning.
After his recent “performance” in federal court in [...]
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The news is abuzz with reports of folks that are going places, some to trial, some to prison and one simply “gone”, at least temporarily.
First there’s a couple of disgraced former politicians:
It would appear that Gene Stipe has given up the fight and has packed his bags for the last time. Reportedly preparations are [...]
Yesterday and today have been fascinating for “Stipe Watchers”.
Yesterday’s news was that U.S. Judge Ronald White issued a written denial after Gene Stipe’s attorneys requested on Tuesday that he be allowed to stay in the state.
This morning the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted Stipe a “stay” of that order, therefore letting Stipe [...]
