1/7/2020 - Washington, D.C. (Brian Bates) - Last Monday appellant counsel for convicted former Oklahoma City police officer Daniel Holtzclaw filed a petition for review to the United States Supreme Court (SCOTUS). The petition asks SCOTUS to grant a ‘Writ of Certiorari.’ In layman’s terms; to review the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals August 2019 affirmation (denial) of Daniel Holtzclaw’s direct appeal of his Dec. 2015 conviction and 263 year sentence.

In the petition, Holtzclaw’s attorney, James L. Hankins of Edmond, outlined two legal concerns to be addressed by SCOTUS.

2/18/2019 (by Brian Bates) - Famed U.S. attorney Kathleen Zellner has formally withdrawn her representation of Daniel Holtzclaw. Zellner had been representing the former Oklahoma City police officer in four separate federal civil lawsuits since her initial appearances in Oct. of 2017, as noted below:

11/27/2019 - Daniel Holtzclaw was featured, starting today, on the ‘Wrongful Conviction’ podcast, hosted by Jason Flom.

10/23/2019 - Lexington, OK — Former Oklahoma City police officer and convicted serial rapist, Daniel Holtzclaw, spoke under oath for the first time regarding the allegations that resulted in his 263 year prison sentence in 2015. Daniel did not testify at his criminal trial.

Over the past weekend, Holtzclaw was transported by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections from an out-of-state prison facility to the Lexington Assessment and Reception Center, south of Norman, Oklahoma.

Only hours after the OCCA published their opinion, Daniel’s sister Jenny Holtzclaw addressed the media in from of the OCCA building near the state capital.

Jenny was joined by her and Daniel’s father, Eric Holtzclaw - who is a lieutenant with another Oklahoma police department - and additional supporters.

Below is a portion of Jenny Holtzclaw’s public comments…

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8/1/2019 - OKC — The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals (OCCA) published their opinion “Affirming” (upholding) the criminal conviction and 263 year sentence of former Oklahoma City police officer Daniel Holtzclaw.

In 2016, Holtzclaw (half white and half Japanese) was convicted of 18 of 36 criminal charges stemming from the sexual assault allegations of 8 of 13 black females residing in the Springlake Patrol District. The females ranged in age from 17 - 57.

The five judge panel rendered a unanimous decision.

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I’ve decided to create a blog to coincide with the season one podcast of the Daniel Holtzclaw case.

This will be an area where I can post articles, information, updates, answer questions and otherwise interact with the audience in a more timely format while keeping the podcast itself more streamlined.

In my career as a private investigator, working on many criminal defense cases, the Daniel Holtzclaw case is the one case my mind continually wanders back to and it’s one of the only cases I’ve personally worked on that I feel justice was truly not served.

During the preparation, and up through the trial itself, I kept my opinions of this case pretty much to myself.

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