A DUI arrest in Tulsa starts two separate tracks, one over your driver's license and one in criminal court, and each has its own clock.

A detective's card in the door. A phone call asking you to come down and clear something up. Officers on the porch asking to come inside and chat. Here is what is going on when that happens, and what to say.

A target letter is the federal government telling you, in writing, that you are likely to be charged. What you do in the next few weeks can shape everything that follows.

The call comes late at night, or it never comes and you hear it from someone else. Either way, families ask me the same things: where are they, how do we get them out, and what happens to their phone, their wallet and their car. This is what I tell them about Tulsa County. Finding them When someone is arrested on a misdemeanor or felony charge in Tulsa County, they are booked into the David L. Moss Criminal Justice Center, the county jail at 300 North Denver Avenue. Booking t

For a lot of first-time defendants in Oklahoma, a deferred sentence is the best realistic outcome short of a dismissal. It is also widely misunderstood, including by people who already have one.

The hours after an arrest are when people do the most damage to their own cases. Here is what matters in the first two days, for the person arrested and for the family trying to help.

If you're probably going to take a plea anyway, why hire a lawyer? Because in Oklahoma the fight usually starts before anyone mentions a plea, and it often starts in a jail cell.