Daniel Holtzclaw · Sources
The Documents
Every source document this site cites and hosts, in one place: court rulings, the laboratory’s reports and notes, depositions, police reports, department emails and the transcript pages. The excerpts include every page the site cites.
Court rulings and filings
The appeal and the record around it.
| Document | Date | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Holtzclaw v. State, 2019 OK CR 17 | Aug. 1, 2019 | The Court of Criminal Appeals opinion affirming the convictions. |
| Brief of Appellant, No. F-2016-62 ↗ | Feb. 1, 2017 | Daniel’s direct-appeal brief. |
| Affidavit of Michael J. Spence, Ph.D. | Jan. 30, 2017 | A forensic DNA expert’s review of the State’s DNA evidence, filed with the appeal. |
| Proposed amicus brief of Randall T. Coyne and J. Christian Adams | Mar. 2017 | Argues the protests and courthouse atmosphere denied Daniel a fair trial. The court denied leave to file it. |
| Motion to permit Daniel to review sealed documents under supervision | Aug. 13, 2026 | Filed in the Court of Criminal Appeals, No. F-2016-62. |
Forensic reports and laboratory records
What the Oklahoma City police laboratory did with the uniform pants.
| Document | Date | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Gill et al., Report on Scientific Issues in Oklahoma v. Holtzclaw ↗ | July 25, 2017 | An international panel of forensic scientists on the DNA evidence. |
| Forensic Examination Report, SD-14-273 | Nov. 12, 2014 | The laboratory’s report on the 2014 testing. |
| Supplemental Forensic Examination Report | Oct. 7, 2015 | The two swabs from inside the fly, taken at the prosecutor’s request. |
| Quantification report, Scott Adams 03610 | Oct. 1, 2015 | Records male DNA on both inside-fly swabs. |
| Electropherogram, fly swab 17Q2 | June 25, 2014 | The 2014 data for one of the outside-fly swabs. |
| Property receipt, Scott Adams 04341–42 | June 19, 2014 | The pants released to the laboratory. |
| Bench notes, SD-14-273 | Produced Oct. 23, 2015 | The pages produced to the defense as the analyst’s 2014 notes. DNA profile values masked. |
| How the bench notes were produced | Aug.–Oct. 2015 | The defense request and the prosecutor’s cover letter. |
Depositions
Sworn testimony from the civil lawsuits, taken after the appeal record closed.
| Document | Date | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Elaine Taylor, OCPD forensic analyst | Jan. 15, 2019 | Cited pages. |
| Campbell Ruddock, OCPD DNA manager | Mar. 21, 2019 | Cited pages. |
| Detective Kim Davis | Jan. 29, 2019 | Cited pages. |
| Detective Rocky Gregory | Jan. 17, 2019 | Cited pages. |
| Lt. Timothy Muzny | Mar. 26, 2019 | Cited pages. |
| Capt. Ron Bacy | Mar. 27, 2019 | Cited pages. |
| Maj. Denise Wenzel | Cited pages. | |
| Maj. Brian Jennings | Cited pages. | |
| Lt. Brian Bennett | Cited pages. | |
| Daniel Holtzclaw | Cited pages. |
Police reports and records
The investigation as the department documented it.
| Document | Date | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| OCPD case file, cited pages | 2014–2015 | Reports and records as produced to the defense, numbered “Scott Adams.” |
| Supplemental report 14-041539 (004) | Dated June 6, 2014 | Detective Gregory’s search for Terri Morris. It cites a jail visit on July 10. |
| Supplemental report 14-041539 (002) | Dated June 5, 2014 | Approved August 26; describes events from August. |
| Supplemental report 14-041539 (018) | 2014 | Detective Gregory’s write-up of a Morris interview. It doesn’t mention the map she was shown. |
| Crime report 14-092553 | 2014 | The allegation by the woman the site calls Victim #14. |
| Lt. Bennett’s supplemental report | Sept. 21, 2015 | Written nearly two years after the 2013 Demetria Campbell arrest. |
| Use-of-force file | Nov. 2013 | The department’s records of the Campbell arrest. |
| City of Oklahoma City’s summary-judgment reply, Campbell lawsuit | Aug. 17, 2018 | The city’s account of the contemporaneous records. |
Department emails
Internal email produced in the civil litigation.
| Document | Date | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Captain Bacy’s emails, OKC 29240–29313 | 2014 | Excerpts. |
| Emails of May 27, 2014, OKC 36361 | May 27, 2014 | Bacy to Muzny and Wenzel to Kuhlman. |
Transcripts
Pages of the trial and preliminary-hearing transcripts cited on this site.
| Document | Date | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Trial transcript, cited pages, part 1 | Nov.–Dec. 2015 | |
| Trial transcript, cited pages, part 2 | Nov.–Dec. 2015 | |
| Trial transcript, cited pages, part 3 | Nov.–Dec. 2015 | Includes the analyst’s testimony and the verdicts. |
| Trial transcript, cited pages, part 4 | Nov.–Dec. 2015 | |
| Trial transcript, cited pages, part 5 | Nov.–Dec. 2015 | |
| Trial transcript, Regina Copeland pages | Nov.–Dec. 2015 | |
| Trial transcript, Shardayreon Hill pages | Nov.–Dec. 2015 | |
| Trial transcript, Syrita Bowen pages | Nov.–Dec. 2015 | |
| Trial transcript, corroboration pages | Nov.–Dec. 2015 | |
| Preliminary hearing, cited pages | Nov. 2014 |
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