Tomorrow #SCOTUS will hear oral arguments in a case that could limit the scope of its 2020 #McGirt decision.
Using alarming facts & figures, #Oklahoma claims McGirt led to criminal justice chaos. But we looked into it, & their numbers don’t add up.
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
Using alarming facts & figures, #Oklahoma claims McGirt led to criminal justice chaos. But we looked into it, & their numbers don’t add up.
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
In its CERT petition in Castro, OK claimed up to 76,000 past convictions could be impacted according to district attorneys. The governor‘s office confirmed the estimate came from DAs. But when we contacted the DAs, they didn’t know what the governor was talking about.
According to data from the OKDOC, only 68 inmates have been released from prison to the street bc of McGirt. And since courts ruled the decision is not retroactive, even that number is shrinking.
OK now claims that it has lost jurisdiction over 18,000 cases a year, and in one brief suggested 10,000 of those cases are going unprosecuted. But the data we collected from tribes, the feds and Oklahoma showed a gap that was less than 1,000.
The piece was written and reported in collaboration with the amazing @alisonaher! You can catch the radio version on @KOSURadio this afternoon.
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