Randy B

Randy Bauman

Pronouns: He/His

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Bio

Randy advocated for prisoners condemned to death for more than 25 years.  He began in private practice. He served as a state public defender with the Oklahoma Indigent Defense System Capital Post-Conviction Division for 4 years. Then, Randy served 21 years as a public defender in the Western District of Oklahoma Federal Public Defender Office, Capital Habeas Unit (CHU), ultimately as CHU Supervisor, before retiring from that position in mid 2018.  He then joined ACLU Oklahoma as Of Counsel. Randy is a recipient of the OCDLA Thurgood Marshall Appellate Advocacy Award and of the Oklahoma Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty’s Opio Toure Courageous Advocate Award.  He is on the Board of the Metro Mental Illness Advocacy and Awareness Organization.

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Tribes are sovereign nations

McGirt Stands: The Limits of Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta

The State of Oklahoma has resisted McGirt and sought to simply renege on the promise at the end of the Trail of Tears, as noted by the Supreme Court when it held the reservation promised to the Muscogee Nation remains intact.
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McGirt a Year Later: The Osage Reservation Still Exists

ACLU of Oklahoma supports the argument the Osage Reservation, co-extensive with Osage County, still exists. This argument is a natural and seemingly an inevitable conclusion from the Supreme Court’s decision in McGirt v. Oklahoma. In McGirt, the Supreme Court held the Muscogee Reservation, which includes most of Tulsa County, still exists. The Supreme Court also discussed the mode of analysis to reach a determination of whether a reservation still exists.