Fern L. Smith

Assistant District Attorney

Johnston County, Oklahoma - District 20

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Fern L. Smith circ. 1993

Bob Macy's "Protégé" per his biography.

Fern L. Smith circ. 2022

Fern L. Smith

Assistant District Attorney

Johnston County, Oklahoma - District 20

Bar #8347

Assistant DA under Bob Macy 1980-2001
Assistant District 7 Attorney 1980 - unknown
Assistant District 20 Attorney under Craig Ladd & Melissa Handke 2016 - Sept 2024.

The Wrongful Convictions of Richard Glossip...

Judicial Integrity Crisis On the Horizon: Countless Cases Tainted by Prosecutorial Malfeasance

Nearly 1/2 a century of convictions could be questioned! SCOTUS Announces it will hear Glossip v. Oklahoma; What it means for Oklahoma's 20th Judicial District. Read More...

State Reps Call for Prosecution of the Prosecutors!

As SCOTUS grants a stay of execution pending the review of TWO petitions (No. 22-6500 & No. 22-7466) for Writ of Certiorari, Oklahoma's current judicial system would rather kill an innocent man than admit the misconduct of the prosecutors leading to the wrongful conviction of Richard Glossip.
One of the implicated prosecutors continues to prosecute cases in Johnston County under District Attorney, Craig Ladd.

DA Craig Ladd's Assistant, Fern Smith, Named in U.S. Supreme Court Filing for Presenting "false testimony and jury misconduct"!

On January 9, 2023 The Supreme Court of the United States docketed case No. 22-6500 and distributed for conference of February 17, 2023. The Writ of Certiorari filed names Johnston County's Assistant District Attorney, Fern L. Smith, in multiple instances of prosecutorial misconduct in the case globally viewed as wrongfully convicting Richard Glossip. Meanwhile, Smith continues to prosecute in Johnston County Oklahoma where she allegedly continues attempts to cover up local misconduct and corruption. View the SCOTUS docket here...

Johnston County's New "Death-Squad"...

Former prosecutor under Bob Macy's "Death Squad", Fern L. Smith, has made Johnston County her latest target of systemic prosecutorial misconduct. Since her arrival in 2016, she has been implicated in the destruction of evidence in a capital murder case, she has made efforts to cover up for police misconduct, stack charges, and ignore the unlawful behaviors of the local Sheriff's office.