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Pets of the week

Submitted photoThe pet of the week at the Muskogee AnimalShelter is Hershel. Hershel is a 5-year-old, neuteredmale beagle. He likes other dogs and loves kids. Hewould love a permanent home with room to run.The shelter has other dogs and cats in need ofhomes. If you can give Hershel or any of the oth-er pets at the Muskogee Animal Shelter a home,visit the shelter, 4002 Border St., or call (918) 684-

6285. The shelter is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.Monday, Wednesday and Friday; 10:30 a.m. to 5p.m. Tuesday and Thursday; and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.Saturday. You can see other animals that are avail-able for adoption at www.muskogeeonline.org/city-departments/animalshelter/adoption or on Sud-denlink Channel 14.

Submitted photoThe pet of the week from Coins 4 Critters isLisa. She is a beautiful bobtail calico. Lisa hasbeen spayed, dewormed and vaccinated. You canmeet her and other cats and dogs for adoption atPetco, 936 W. Shawnee Bypass, or visit them on-line at www.coins4critters.org .

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Local/StateMuskogee Phoenix Saturday, March 2, 2013 Section A, Page 5Justice panel'sreport targetsfaulty verdictsIt suggests waysto reduce rateof wrongfulconvictionsOKLAHOMA CITY (AP) The Oklahoma InnocenceProject ranks the stateamong the top 10 forwrongful convictions, whicha report issued Friday saidcould be lowered by law en-forcement officers, attor-neys and judges.The Oklahoma Justice

Commission, formed by theOklahoma Bar Association,unveiled its recommenda-tions following a two-yearstudy into convictions ofpeople for crimes they did-n't commit. The 33-membergroup's suggestions followeach step of the wrongfulconviction process, from ar-rest to release."It's not an indictmentagainst law enforcement,"Oklahoma City Police ChiefBill Citty, a member of thecommission, said. "It's justthat you always want to tryto do things better."The Oklahoma Inno-cence Project said morethan a dozen people wereexonerated last year in thestate for crimes they didn'tcommit, several after adecade or more in prison.According to the commis-sion's report, almost one-third of nationwide wrong-ful convictions in the pasttwo decades involved falseconfessions, which can begiven under pressure frominvestigators or out of fearor exhaustion. One of thereport's major recommen-dations is to videotape in-terrogations and confes-sions to allow investigators,juries and judges to see forthemselves."It's something that'sdone a lot here already, butit's not done by every lawenforcement agency," Cittysaid. "It adds a lot of credi-bility to investigations andsome accountability whenit goes to court."The report recommendsadjusting photo and physi-

TAHLEQUAH TheCherokee Nation SupremeCourt has upheld a lowercourt ruling that the 15Tribal Council voting dis-tricts are constitutional,states a media release."The boundaries of thesedistricts variously followcounty lines, highways,rivers and ZIP code bound-aries," Justice JamesWilcoxen wrote in theSupreme Court's opinion."Not in every instance arethese districts contiguousor compact. This court doesnot find that there is a suf-ficient basis to interferewith the actions of the Trib-al Council."In January, a CherokeeNation District Court judgehad also ruled that theTribal Council had followedproper legal channels with-in the Cherokee NationConstitution when a ma-jority of council membersvoted to redistrict from fivedistricts to 15 voting dis-tricts.

OSU to honorSTILLWATER (AP) The Oklahoma State Uni-versity/A&M Board of Re-gents has voted to awardan honorary doctorate inscience to Air Force Gen.Thomas Stafford, a retired

astronaut.The regents met Fridayin Stillwater.Stafford is a native ofWeatherford who flew twoGemini space flights and

OKC officer'sOKLAHOMA CITY (AP) Oklahoma City police sayan undercover officer shotand killed a man after theofficer interrupted a sus-pected drug transaction.Capt. Dexter Nelson said

cal line-ups to prevent wit-nesses from thinking inves-tigators want them to picka particular person. It alsocalls on the state to ade-quately fund training forall criminal justice profes-sionals and post-releaseservices for those wrongful-ly convicted.The commission also sug-gested allowing DNA evi-dence to be available for in-vestigations even aftersomeone's conviction sothat an innocent personcan push for a retrial. Ac-cording to the report, Okla-homa is the only state thatdoesn't allow post-convic-tion DNA testing."There's going to be apathway for these inmatesthat are incarcerated oreven someone that mayhave passed on, a familymember that wants to clearsomeone's name whenthey're actually innocent ofa crime to have access tothis new technology," saidcommission member Rep.Lee Denney, R-Cushing.Her bill to allow the testinghas passed the House andis under consideration bythe state Senate.Drew Edmondson, a for-mer Oklahoma attorneygeneral and the commis-sion's chairman, said manyof the recommendationscould be voluntarily adopt-ed by police departmentsand courts without legisla-tion. Still, he added the re-port also recommends somelegislative force behind thechanges.A common themethroughout the report iswhat law enforcementstands to gain from its rec-ommendations, saying in-vestigators and the broad-er public could be more con-fident in investigations.

"If the wrong guy is inprison, that means the guythat really did it is out onthe streets," Edmondsonsaid. "And nobody feelsmore strongly about thatthan the people who wearbadges and enforce thelaw."

TULSA (AP) One oftwo brothers accused in theJanuary shooting deaths offour women at a crime-plagued Tulsa apartmentcomplex pleaded not guilty

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