{"id":13733,"date":"2013-04-11T06:00:21","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T11:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=13733"},"modified":"2013-04-10T16:03:54","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T21:03:54","slug":"oklahomas-crime-funded-court-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2013\/04\/11\/oklahomas-crime-funded-court-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma&#8217;s Crime-Funded Court System"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13750\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Attorney Chad Moody outside his downtown Oklahoma City office. \" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/04\/drug-lawyerpic.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13750\" title=\"drug-lawyerpic\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/04\/drug-lawyerpic-300x220.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/04\/drug-lawyerpic-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/04\/drug-lawyerpic-500x367.jpg 500w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/04\/drug-lawyerpic-150x110.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/04\/drug-lawyerpic.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Logan Layden \/ StateImpact Oklahoma<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Defense Attorney Chad Moody stands outside his downtown Oklahoma City office.<\/p>\n<\/div><p>Oklahoma doesn&#8217;t like to raise taxes, and in 1992 voters <a title=\"Ballotpedialink\" href=\"http:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/wiki\/index.php\/Oklahoma_State_Question_640,_No_Tax_Increases_Without_Voter_Approval_(March_1992)\" target=\"_blank\">passed a state question<\/a> that required massive legislative majorities to do so.<\/p><p>But rising costs in the justice system still have to be paid for, somehow. Since then, the courts have turned to fees for funding more and more.<\/p><p>There&#8217;s a $50 fee for summary judgements, a $349 jury fee in civil cases, a $20 court reporter fee. If you get a DUI, there&#8217;s a $400 fee. In fact, the DUI fee is higher than the fee for a murder conviction, which is only about $100.<\/p><p>It&#8217;s the users of the court system, and more specifically the losers, who pay most of those fees, and many question the wisdom of that trend.<\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the users of the court system, and more specifically the losers, who pay most of those fees, and many question the wisdom of that trend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":13750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[492],"tags":[348,142],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13733"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13761,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13733\/revisions\/13761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}