Shelley Duncan case moved to federal court

Posted by John Small | Apr 28, 2021 | Crime News, Main News

Former Tishomingo schoolteacher and cheer coach Shelley Duncan’s effort to have her conviction and sentencing nullified due to a 2020 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court succeeded last week - but it may result in a stricter sentence than that originally handed down by the state. After last week’s issue went to press, the Sentinel […]

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John Small

John A. Small is the Managing Editor and (with Publishers Tom and Mary Lokey) co-founder of the Johnston County Sentinel, a weekly newspaper headquartered in Tishomingo, Oklahoma. He came to Tishomingo (his mother’s birthplace) in 1991 and spent the next three and a half years as reporter and columnist for the Johnston County Capital-Democrat. Following a two-year stint as News Editor at the Durant Daily Democrat, he returned to the C-D as News Editor in 1997 and remained there until January of 2018, when the Sentinel was founded. To date his work as a journalist has earned him more than 220 awards from the Oklahoma Press Association, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Associated Press, the National Newspaper Association, and the Oklahoma Education Association.

Shelley Duncan case moved to federal court

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