Two cases will be tried by jury this September at the Okmulgee County Courthouse. Jurors will preside over a Possession of Firearm After Former Felony Conviction case and also a Murder in the First Degree.

The first case to go to trial will go before District Judge Ken Adair on Monday, Sept. 10 at 9 a.m. in Courtroom 1. Adair will review evidence and witness testimony in The State of Oklahoma vs. Kenneth Lawrence Jr. case concerning allegations against Lawrence Jr. for Possession of a Firearm After Former Felony Conviction. Lawrence Jr. was apprehended June 29, 2017, on allegations of possession of a firearm after a felony conviction. According to the court’s information item, Lawrence Jr. did knowingly posses a .40 handgun in his Taurus which was found in his waistband. Previously, he was convicted of knowingly concealing stolen property in 2011, resulting in the Possession of a Firearm after a Felony.

On Monday, Sept. 24, William Shirley IV will come before Associate District Judge Cynthia Pickering in connection to the State of Oklahoma vs. William Shirley IV. Police had arrested Shirley on December 21, 2016, on complaints of first degree murder. Reports of a shooting came into the Okmulgee Police Department near the 1000 block of West 8th Street, and when police officers arrived on scene they found Kenneth Fultz dead inside his home. According to the court’s information item, Shirley “regardless of malice” took the life of Fultz by shooting him with a pistol during the commission of first degree burglary. Police were able to obtain enough probable cause to arrest Shirley, according to a Facebook post the Okmulgee Police Department made on Dec. 23, 2016. The state has endorsed 26 witnesses connected to the case, which include police and other state officials.

Judge Adair also recently sentenced Okmulgee man Robert Fry, 48, in connection to a Peeping Tom with Photographic and Electronic Equipment. Fry was arrested May 11, 2017, after a felony warrant was issued and was held on a $10,000 bond. He had plead guilty Friday, Aug. 31 to the complaints of peeping tom, resulting in five years in the department of corrections and two years of supervision with special rules.