ColLeen Lilah McCarty

Practice Areas: Oklahoma Appleseed is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that fights for justice and opportunity for all Oklahomans. Criminal & Juvenile Justice, Education Justice, and Election Justice..

Additional Information: On May 21st, 2024, Governor Kevin Stitt signed the Oklahoma Survivors’ Act (SB 1835) - cited at 22 OS 1090.1 et. seq. - into law. It goes into effect August 29th, 2024. This law provides for retroactive resentencing for survivors of domestic violence serving sentences in Oklahoma prisons. To qualify, survivors must be able to prove the abuse with documentary evidence, they must be able to show the abuse was a significant factor in their offense or their criminal behavior. If their crime is coded as a violence crime, they must also show the victim was their abuser, or that they were coerced by their abuser to commit the crime.