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<v Speaker 1>Any is time now for our community connection right here

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<v Speaker 1>on K one, the one New Trust and we have

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<v Speaker 1>a district attorney, Will Drake in here.

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<v Speaker 2>Do you promise to tell the truth, the whole truth,

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<v Speaker 2>nothing but the truth. There you go, Here we go.

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<v Speaker 2>We got that out of the way. How you been

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<v Speaker 2>been pretty.

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<v Speaker 3>Busy at the Core House this last couple of months?

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<v Speaker 3>We got jury trials coming up, so getting prepped for that.

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<v Speaker 3>We just got through a jury trials that feels like,

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<v Speaker 3>and we're just just plugging along.

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<v Speaker 1>First question that a lot of people want to know

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<v Speaker 1>is that what does a district attorney do? What's your

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<v Speaker 1>area and what are your functions?

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<v Speaker 3>So what people think that we do and know that

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<v Speaker 3>we do is prosecute people in charge of crimes. We

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<v Speaker 3>do that, you know, traffic tickets all the way from

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<v Speaker 3>murder cases, everything in between for Washington and for no

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<v Speaker 3>Water County is our district. But I have a lot

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<v Speaker 3>of things we don't people don't know we do. We

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<v Speaker 3>advise county officials, like so if the county commissioners have

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<v Speaker 3>a question, or the election board has a question, any

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<v Speaker 3>county official has a question, they ask us a legal

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<v Speaker 3>question obviously, and we try to get that answer to

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<v Speaker 3>as fast as we can, we help it.

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<v Speaker 4>We assist in investigations.

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<v Speaker 3>We give legal advice to law enforcement officers, especially the

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<v Speaker 3>sheriff's office.

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<v Speaker 4>Just a lot of little things.

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<v Speaker 3>I mean when I first became district attorney, I didn't

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<v Speaker 3>realize I signed all the school bonds. So if any

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<v Speaker 3>school in our district wants a school bond, I have

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<v Speaker 3>to sign off on it. And that was really interesting

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<v Speaker 3>because you get, you know, million.

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<v Speaker 4>Dollar school bonds.

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<v Speaker 2>One word. Oh yeah.

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<v Speaker 3>So I'm looking at this like a fine tooth comb.

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<v Speaker 3>And I called my predecessor, Mischi Buchanan, and it's like, do.

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<v Speaker 4>I sign these?

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<v Speaker 3>He's like, well, five attorneys have signed that before you've

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<v Speaker 3>even seen that.

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<v Speaker 4>Just signed the thing and get it back to you know.

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<v Speaker 3>So I couldn't believe I had no idea that we

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<v Speaker 3>signed school bonds.

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<v Speaker 4>You know, there's lots of things we do.

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<v Speaker 2>Wow, we that's incredible. Uh.

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<v Speaker 1>There are a lot of things that go on here

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<v Speaker 1>in Oklahoma because we're kind of a unique state in

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<v Speaker 1>where we have a credible nations as well as the

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<v Speaker 1>state of Oklahoma, the County of Washington, the city of

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<v Speaker 1>Bartlesville or the city of No water, till lot or whatever.

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<v Speaker 1>But we have different types of citizenship, and sometimes when

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<v Speaker 1>crimes are committed, things have to be treated a different

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<v Speaker 1>way depending on tribal citizenship or whether or not you're

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<v Speaker 1>not tribal.

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<v Speaker 2>It is.

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<v Speaker 3>I mean, if you're a member of an Indian, a

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<v Speaker 3>federally recognized Indian tribe, which is five hundred and thirty

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<v Speaker 3>eight of them, now I believe, and you have any

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<v Speaker 3>degree of Indian blood. So let's got this two pronged test.

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<v Speaker 3>Then you if you're charge anything from like a seat

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<v Speaker 3>belt ticket to murder, you go to either the US

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<v Speaker 3>Attorney's office in Tulsa or you go to the Cherokee

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<v Speaker 3>Nation and Tahic law. So I know years ago and

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<v Speaker 3>its first started in July.

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<v Speaker 4>Of twenty twenty.

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<v Speaker 3>It was quite a fight between Oklahoma and the FEDS

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<v Speaker 3>and a nation.

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<v Speaker 4>Lots of confusion, lots of confusion.

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<v Speaker 3>Boy, it was I mean, no one saw this coming,

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<v Speaker 3>at least if you put true sermon.

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<v Speaker 4>And no one saw this coming, and so it was

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<v Speaker 4>a law. It was years of figuring this out.

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<v Speaker 3>I mean, we talk about the fight we all had

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<v Speaker 3>in twenty and twenty twenty one. Now it's more about

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<v Speaker 3>the details, what exactly does it mean? Individual small details,

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<v Speaker 3>but yeah, it's we So we prosecute everyone who's not

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<v Speaker 3>a member of the Cherokee Nation or any Indian tribe

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<v Speaker 3>who has a degree of Indian blood. So we send

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<v Speaker 3>about probably about ten percent of our cases now go

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<v Speaker 3>to Tahlequah or the Attorney's office.

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<v Speaker 1>Now with this in mind, imagine we have to have

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<v Speaker 1>all different kinds of agreements with the tribal entities in

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<v Speaker 1>order to make things work under the circumstances we have

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<v Speaker 1>presented to us.

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<v Speaker 3>We do, I mean, our office does advise the Sheriff's

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<v Speaker 3>office or some of those cross deputation agreements such normally

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<v Speaker 3>it's your police officers who have those.

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<v Speaker 4>So like the Sheriff's office has them.

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<v Speaker 3>So they can deal with tribal citizens of you know,

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<v Speaker 3>the Barsol police department, They're all have that crossization. It's

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<v Speaker 3>a it's important because otherwise there's a jurisdictional.

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<v Speaker 4>Issue or not you can deal with them or not.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna bring up something here.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna present a knights and just as it is,

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<v Speaker 1>there's talk about a certain tool for law enforcement and

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<v Speaker 1>it's called a flock camera.

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<v Speaker 2>Just what is a flock camera.

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<v Speaker 3>So it's becoming very controversial here in Bartlesville. But it's

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<v Speaker 3>a flock camera. Flock is an acronym for something, and

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<v Speaker 3>that's the that's the brand name of the camera.

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<v Speaker 4>But a flock camera will.

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<v Speaker 3>Sit on different basically the telephone poles around Bartlesville, around

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<v Speaker 3>major intersections, and it reads car tags, it identifies vehicles,

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<v Speaker 3>things of that nature, and it's and it saves that video,

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<v Speaker 3>I believe, for thirty days. And the purpose of the

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<v Speaker 3>it's not really to watch people and keep an eye

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<v Speaker 3>on regular citizens. The purpose of it is to help

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<v Speaker 3>solve crimes. Like, for instance, if there's a stolen car

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<v Speaker 3>driving down Frank Phillips right now, there's a.

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<v Speaker 4>Flock camera outside.

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<v Speaker 3>It could hit that tag, run that tag through a database,

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<v Speaker 3>and we could notify Bartlesville very quickly. Hey, there's a

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<v Speaker 3>stolen car heading westbound on Frank Phillips.

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<v Speaker 2>Same way with somewhat abducting a child.

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<v Speaker 3>Absolutely, if there's an Amber alert, we have a tag

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<v Speaker 3>number on a car. That's a quick way of finding

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<v Speaker 3>a suspect vehicle in a child abduction. We were talking

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<v Speaker 3>off air about other states have already solved crimes. Tulsa

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<v Speaker 3>Tulsa's had these for years, and Tulsa has solved lots

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<v Speaker 3>of child abductions and murder cases these flock cameras. I

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<v Speaker 3>understand people have a lot of concerns about invasion or privacy,

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<v Speaker 3>But anybody comes up to me, I always telling them,

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<v Speaker 3>what's your cell phone at It's in your pockets. If

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<v Speaker 3>you want to be tracked, there's a cell phone in

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<v Speaker 3>your pocket. If if you're out in public, you don't

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<v Speaker 3>have a right to privacy because you're out in the public.

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<v Speaker 3>So the cameras aren't under a constitutional theory, aren't invasion

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<v Speaker 3>or privacy because you're out in public. If you're on

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<v Speaker 3>these cameras, they're not at your individual houses and in

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<v Speaker 3>barrels that we're talking about key intersections, we're there major

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<v Speaker 3>traffic flow.

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<v Speaker 2>Sure.

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<v Speaker 1>Now, something that hits just about anybody over the age

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<v Speaker 1>of eighteen who's a legal voter, the opportunity to serve

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<v Speaker 1>on a jury. I served on too, and I learned

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<v Speaker 1>a lot. I didn't want to, but I learned a lot,

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<v Speaker 1>and I came to appreciate that time spent.

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<v Speaker 2>What can you tell us about a jury?

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<v Speaker 3>I love the term opportunity, That's what it really is

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<v Speaker 3>an opportunity. You know, if you want to be a

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<v Speaker 3>juror in Oklahoma, you have to have a valid driver's

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<v Speaker 3>license or any kind of ID. That's how we kind

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<v Speaker 3>of pick it. So it's very important. It's of very

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<v Speaker 3>important civic duty. If people have complaints, it's like I

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<v Speaker 3>tell them, go vote. If you have complaints about the system,

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<v Speaker 3>go vote. If you have complaints about the criminal justice system,

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<v Speaker 3>don't make all the excuses. Get that courthouse, you know,

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<v Speaker 3>three times a year, and come help us out these

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<v Speaker 3>big important cases. Because I hear all the time, Oh,

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<v Speaker 3>I can't believe this happened to the courthouse, or that

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<v Speaker 3>happened in this jury trial.

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<v Speaker 4>We'll get up here and help us make these decisions.

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<v Speaker 4>I don't. It's I know, it's it's not a.

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<v Speaker 2>It's not a glamorous thing.

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<v Speaker 4>It's not fun.

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<v Speaker 3>We did we did a trial a few about two

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<v Speaker 3>months ago, and the the the gentleman who was being tried,

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<v Speaker 3>had some problems and he did threaten everybody on the jury.

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<v Speaker 3>And I get it, but it's one of those things

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<v Speaker 3>where he had some mental problems. It wasn't going to

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<v Speaker 3>be it was a real issue. I get that, and

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<v Speaker 3>I get it's it's like you have to disclosure all

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<v Speaker 3>these things about you, but it's important civic duty to

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<v Speaker 3>do this, and I always encourage it. Come on up there,

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<v Speaker 3>don't make the excuse, and let's help us out and

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<v Speaker 3>help us make these decisions because we if we're at

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<v Speaker 3>a jury trial, it's because we can't work out something

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<v Speaker 3>we need. People from the public are peers, like we

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<v Speaker 3>learned the Civice class, to come tell us what the

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<v Speaker 3>evidence says. So we really always really appreciate and encourage.

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<v Speaker 4>It to come up there.

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<v Speaker 2>Now, the process is that you picked it random.

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<v Speaker 3>So how we get our jury panels is Oklahoma City.

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<v Speaker 3>There's there's the the the office down there and they've

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<v Speaker 3>used it's fifty percent voter roll and fifty percent oklama

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<v Speaker 3>ID and they just rarely generate this list of Washington

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<v Speaker 3>County people or no water Chunactery, no WAA County. They

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<v Speaker 3>send it to the district court and the Court Cork's

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<v Speaker 3>office sends out all these summons. So we usually get

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<v Speaker 3>about seven hundred names every jury term. And the problem

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<v Speaker 3>is about fifty percent show up. Now there's a lot

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<v Speaker 3>of people like we had. I saw a person going

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<v Speaker 3>through the jury list there today if we get a

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<v Speaker 3>copy of it too, persons over one hundred years old,

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<v Speaker 3>and I think that person wants to serve on a jury.

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<v Speaker 3>And so you got people who are like in their

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<v Speaker 3>twenties and thirties and forties.

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<v Speaker 4>Who I don't have time for it.

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<v Speaker 3>You got a person who's a hundred years old going

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<v Speaker 3>to do their civic duty. Yeah, yeah, what's your excuse?

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<v Speaker 3>I mean, come on, people helps out here.

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<v Speaker 1>And the thing is, you want regular people because as

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<v Speaker 1>the constitutions, it's a jury of your peers exactly.

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<v Speaker 3>And you know, Bartlsfiel's an older community as far as

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<v Speaker 3>the population, and our jury panels reflect that. And I

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<v Speaker 3>love that you get some people some real life experience.

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<v Speaker 3>But you got a guy who's, you know, twenty years old,

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<v Speaker 3>typically on trial for something, and the jury is made

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<v Speaker 3>of folks and over the age of fifty, maybe in

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<v Speaker 3>their seventies. And that's fine, like I said, like great

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<v Speaker 3>life experience for those folks, but they're not really this

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<v Speaker 3>guy's peers. It'd be great to have guys in their

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<v Speaker 3>twenties and thirties and forties, but those people seem to

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<v Speaker 3>can't find their way to the courthouse on jury selection day, so.

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<v Speaker 2>You get lost.

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<v Speaker 4>Something happens, dude, Yeah, you.

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<v Speaker 2>Know, I had that problem with my navigation system in

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<v Speaker 2>my car.

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<v Speaker 3>It must be the just supposed to be googled. Going

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<v Speaker 3>back to the Big Brother thing. Again, Google can't get

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<v Speaker 3>in the courthouse. But it is interesting. But the one

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<v Speaker 3>thing that you do learn is how a jury is

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<v Speaker 3>proceeded once they've been selected for jury duty. And you

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<v Speaker 1>It is nothing like TV TV gives you We've got

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<v Speaker 3>The jury selection takes three or four hours sometime maybe

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<v Speaker 3>It's it's not perfect, and it's not anybody it tells

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah. Now you're on the prosecution side.

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<v Speaker 3>But for the as a prosecutor's a little bit different.

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<v Speaker 3>Now, not every piece of evidence that you have may

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<v Speaker 3>That surprises folks. But you don't base your decision on guilty.

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<v Speaker 4>And that's fantastic when they do. I mean, but it did.

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<v Speaker 2>Lots of it happening are very very small.

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<v Speaker 3>I have seen a lot of success to where people

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<v Speaker 3>do actually turn it around, and it's fantastic. I'll see

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<v Speaker 3>him around town because you know, the officer here arrests somebody,

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<v Speaker 4>They see me every month.

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<v Speaker 3>Until their trials are with their cases ever with and

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<v Speaker 3>I know a lot of the folks who are involved

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<v Speaker 4>And you don't want to you want to do your.

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<v Speaker 3>as you possibly can. But yeah, this is the only

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<v Speaker 2>Dog said, I.

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<v Speaker 1>Was just whoa Okay, everybody was paying attention, that's for sure.

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<v Speaker 1>But now when you try cases, you say you go

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<v Speaker 1>to no Wata to take care of their cases as well.

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<v Speaker 2>So that's a lot of miles that you're putting on.

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<v Speaker 1>Do you have offices in both counties or are you

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<v Speaker 4>Well, we do. I go to know Wata once a week.

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<v Speaker 3>So we have I have assistant district attorneys and some

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<v Speaker 3>Well, I've got colleagues like who have the Panhandle? So

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<v Speaker 1>Now, if anybody has questions about the District attorney's offices,

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<v Speaker 3>We do, and it has my email address on that,

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<v Speaker 3>And I mean, I'll talk to anybody.

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<v Speaker 3>And I encourage if you yet questions shoot me an

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<v Speaker 3>So it's hard to enter the phone and we have

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<v Speaker 3>to kind of prioritize the phone calls, but you know,

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<v Speaker 3>if you have a question about the DA's office or

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<v Speaker 3>a certain case, or because I hate it when somebody

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<v Speaker 2>Why adn't you do that?

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<v Speaker 3>And I always say well, why didn't you bring it

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<v Speaker 1>Take it to the DA, don't take it to Facebook,

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<v Speaker 1>don't take it to the chatter.

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<v Speaker 3>And I've been accused a lot of interesting things on Facebook,

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<v Speaker 3>which is funny. The power people on Facebook think I

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<v Speaker 3>get an answer, shoot me an email, you know, or

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<v Speaker 3>or they can come to the office. And if it's

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<v Speaker 3>we're not crazy busy, I'll talk to I'll talk to folks.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, you're very approachable.

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<v Speaker 3>Maybe a little too much sometimes, but yeah, I definitely, Uh.

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<v Speaker 3>The staff knows that people got problems. We're there to

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<v Speaker 4>If we can't. Some problems, you know, just can't be solved.

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<v Speaker 1>That's true. We've been speaking with the district attorney, Will

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<v Speaker 1>Drink and Will I want to thank you for being here,

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