Citizen Report No. 1746308259 - 454333507

Phillip Sheppard

Ardmore Police Department

23 South Washington Street

Ardmore, Oklahoma 73401

(580) 223-1212

https://www.ardmore…

Date of Offense

May 2, 2025

Offense(s)

False Statements

Supporting Document(s)

CF-2023-00321_Jury_Instructions_2.pdf

Statement

No Public CLEET Record

On or about May 2, 2025; in Carter County Case CF-2023-00321; Judge Trisha D. Smith ordered inclusion of jury instruction #17 directing the jury on the impeachment of the government's witnesses, Former District Attorney, Craig Ladd, District 20 Attorney, Melissa Handke, and former Ardmore Police officer, Eric Grisham for their inconsistent and/or false statements made during their trial testimonies in Oklahoma v. May.

Although not included within the jury instruction, testimony at trial from Melissa Handke indicated that former Ardmore Forfeiture Officer, Phil Sheppard, included false statements within his sworn affidavit related to the 2019 CASH forfeiture of over $300,000 related to this case.

We will not stand by as our brothers and sisters are brutalized, criminalized, and silenced.

We reject a world where the powerful profit from our poverty and our lives are treated as expendable. We will not wait for justice to be handed down from above.
We will organize, resist, and take it for ourselves.

WE ARE NO LONGER ASKING...
#ReformIsNotARequest

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