Daniel Holtzclaw was born December 10, 1986, in the U.S. territory Guam to Eric Holtzclaw and to a Japanese mother Kumiko Holtzclaw. His father is a lieutenant with the Enid Police Department, approximately 70 miles (110 kilometres) north of Oklahoma City. Holtzclaw graduated from Enid High School in 2005.
Holtzclaw pleaded not guilty to all charges. On December 10, 2015, he was convicted on 18 of 36 charges, and on January 21, 2016, he was sentenced to 263 years in prison. Jason Flom (a founding Board Member of the Innocence Project ), Michelle Malkin and others have supported Holtzclaw's claims of innocence.
Holtzclaw was convicted of eighteen counts involving eight different women. According to the police investigators, Holtzclaw abused his position as an officer by running background checks to find information that could be used to coerce victims into sex.
In a unanimous opinion on August 1, 2019, the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals denied Holtzclaw's appeal . The ruling, written by Judge Dana Kuehn rejected the appellant attorneys' claims of insufficient evidence and also of improper procedure for bundling all 36 charges together. The opinion denigrated allegations of a "circus atmosphere," noting that the jury returned not guilty verdicts on fully half of the charges. In his concurrence, Presiding Judge David B. Lewis referred to Holtzclaw as a "sexual predator." In their public condemnation of the ruling, Holtzclaw's family and supporters called Lewis' description a "vicious and false assertion."
March 14, 2014 : Holtzclaw stopped a woman who was walking to a friend's house, asked her whether she was in possession of any drugs, and forced her to expose her breasts. April 24, 2014: Holtzclaw stopped a woman who was engaging in sex work.
While there he played football as a linebacker, setting a school record for 25 tackles in a game. He played linebacker at Eastern Michigan University, where he graduated with a degree in criminal justice in 2010. After graduating, Holtzclaw unsuccessfully attempted to get drafted into the NFL.
On August 1, 2019 , Holtzclaw was denied an appeal by the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals, which upheld both his convictions and prison sentence. The defense petitioned the Supreme Court of the United States on the basis that merging seventeen cases together "strains credulity.".
According to court records, Holtzclaw is now being represented by criminal defense and appellate attorney James L. Hankins. Hankins is originally from Enid, Oklahoma (Holtzclaw’s high school hometown) and currently practices out of Edmond, Oklahoma. Below is a redacted version of the actual motion.
Holtzclaw was sentenced to 263 years in prison and is currently being confined by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections in an out-of-state facility. It is important to note that Zellner, best known for her impressive exoneration record, does not, and has never, represented Holtzclaw in his criminal appeal proceedings.
Daniel Holtzclaw became known in a disgraceful way as an Oklahoma City police officer found guilty of multiple counts of sexual assault and other charges against different women, all African-Americans. After Daniel was caught, it was disclosed that he ran background checks to get possible information that he could use ...
Jannie Ligons helped bring Daniel Holtzclaw to justice: Image Source. As opposed to other women the man preyed on, Jannie wasn’t poor, neither does she have any police record. According to her, Daniel Holtzclaw forced her to lift her shirt and pull down her pants before making her perform oral sex on him.
However, their relationship ended in 2015 as a result of the stress of the case against Daniel who had been placed on house arrest in Enid. Kerri Hunt was Daniel Holtzclaw’s only witness during his trial ...
In all, he was charged with 36 counts of first and second-degree rape, stalking, sexual battery, forcible oral sodomy, and procuring lewd exhibition. Eventually, Daniel Holtzclaw was fired from the police force in January 2015 and his trial kicked off on the 2nd of November, 2015.
It was on the 21st of January 2016 that he was sentenced to a 263-years jail term. Not long after he was sentenced, all information about Daniel Holtzclaw was removed from the website of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections (DoC). The man is currently serving his time in an undisclosed Oklahoma state prison.
He pleaded not guilty to all 36 charges brought against him but was later convicted on 18 of the charges.
Following the Jannie incident, the man returned to work the next day but it marked the beginning of his trouble with the law. Upon his report to the Oklahoma City Police Department the following day for his daily 4 p.m. to 2 a.m. shift, Daniel was taken to the department’s Sex Crimes Unit by two detectives for questioning.
He was convicted in December 2015 on 18 of 36 counts of sexual crimes, including four counts of first-degree rape. Holtzclaw was sentenced to 263 years in prison.
He did not take the 5th — he confronted his accusers & made a compelling case that he is innocent.". Holtzclaw, a former Oklahoma City police officer, has an appeal filed at the state-court level contesting an August 2019 Court of Criminals Appeals decision. He also has filed an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Case of Daniel Holtzclaw. In 2016, Daniel Holtzclaw became a poster child for racism, sexism, and abuse of power when he was found guilty of sexually assaulting eight at-risk black women while on duty as an Oklahoma City police officer. Publicly disavowed by the police and protested against by Black Lives Matter, ...
Still, detectives were able to identify him because he was the only officer in the area at that time. Holtzclaw was called in for questioning, and when asked, handed over his uniform and patrol car for testing. Holtzclaw acknowledged the stop, but denied the allegation. No DNA was found to corroborate Ligons’ account.
There, sex crimes detective Kim Davis took her statement. Ligons described her assailant as white, 35-45 years old, 5’7″ to 5’9″, with blonde hair and scarred skin as if from acne. Ligons’ description of Holtzclaw wasn’t a perfect match. He was half-Japanese, half-white, 27-years-old, 6’2”, with black hair and a unscarred face.
And it did: Holtzclaw was sentenced to 263 years in prison.
Innocence Project founding board member Jason Flom devoted an episode of his podcast, Wrongful Conviction, to Holtzclaw’s case. Kathleen Zellner, famous for her role as defense attorney for Steven Avery, Ryan Ferguson, and Mario Casciaro, is also working on Holtzclaw’s behalf.
There were no third party witnesses.
Holtzclaw was accused of sexually assaulting multiple African American women over the period between December 2013 and June 2014, targeting those from a poorer, majority black portion of the city. According to the police investigators, Holtzclaw ran background checks on women with outstanding warrants or other criminal records, and methodically targeted those victims.
The offense that led to Holtzclaw's arrest happened around 2:00 a.m. on June 18, 2014, after Ho…
Daniel Holtzclaw was born December 10, 1986, in the U.S. territory Guam, to Eric Holtzclaw and to a Japanese mother Kumiko Holtzclaw. His father is a lieutenant with the Enid Police Department, approximately 70 miles (110 kilometres) north of Oklahoma City. Holtzclaw graduated from Enid High School in 2005. While there he played football as a linebacker, setting a school record for 25 tackles in a game. He played linebacker at Eastern Michigan University, where he graduated with …
In a unanimous opinion on August 1, 2019, the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals denied Holtzclaw's appeal. The ruling, written by Judge Dana Kuehn, rejected the appellant attorneys' claims of insufficient evidence and of improper procedure for bundling all 36 charges together. The opinion denigrated allegations of a "circus atmosphere," noting that the jury returned not guilty verdicts on half of the charges. In his concurrence, Presiding Judge David B. Lewis referred to H…
According to The Atlantic, mainstream media gave Holtzclaw's trial for serial sexual attacks and rapes "relatively little" attention, although Black Lives Matteractivists raised the matter in social media and helped bring attention to the ongoing judicial process. The Guardian reported that local activists were surprised that advocates from national women's groups, who had attended ra…