More: Seven bodies were found in Okmulgee County on Monday. McFadden’s $25,000 bond is fairly standard in Muskogee County, he said. Ryan Ferguson, a criminal defense attorney and former prosecutor in the Muskogee County district attorney's office who represented the state in a November 2017 hearing for the McFadden case, before leaving the office a month later, said the case was an outlier. On Monday morning, McFadden was reported by Oklahoma Highway Patrol to possibly be with teens Ivy Webster and Brittany Brewer,īy the end of the day, when investigators announced the gruesome discovery of dead bodies, McFadden’s dark criminal history came to public light. While some say the delayed case was unusual, others said they were not surprised it took as long as it did to get McFadden to trial. There needs to be repercussions, and someone needs to be held accountable.
“The sexual (offender) registry doesn’t work,” he said. Justin Webster, father of Ivy Webster, echoed those remarks in comments to The Associated Press. “There needs to be a review of everything that happened here because this was a failure of the state judiciary system. “What we’re seeing here is a complete and utter failure of the state of Oklahoma’s criminal justice system, and what we need to know is how widespread is this,” Chapman said. And, the pandemic was no excuse for court delays, because it arose more than two years after McFadden’s case was filed.
The state should have prosecuted McFadden while he was in prison, Chapman said.
McFadden’s early release from prison, his bond release from county jail and the length of his trial have come under scrutiny from those who question how a convicted rapist with child pornography charges was allowed in the community.īrett Chapman, a Tulsa-based criminal defense attorney and former prosecutor for the Tulsa County district attorney’s office, reviewed McFadden's criminal history. 'It's systemic failure': State's legal protocol under scrutiny It was then that authorities visited his property and discovered the grisly scene.
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