A jury term is scheduled in Lincoln County and will begin Monday, Oct. 19, County Court Clerk Cindy Kirby has confirmed.
The number of cases to be tried will be better determined during a jury call docket set for this Friday morning, Oct. 16.
Kirby explained, “The courts are going to try the older cases first which are the ones who are inmates in the Lincoln County jail.”
A jury term that had been scheduled for August had to be canceled in July because the court side of the Lincoln County Courthouse was shut down due to persons who work in that area coming down with COVID-19.
A trial date had been set for the Prague parents of twins they are accused of abusing who were born last November.
In the Prague parents case, Joseph Carl Corum, 20, faces two charges of child abuse. His wife, Mina Starr Arnold, 19, is charged with two counts of enabling child abuse. They were formally charged in Lincoln County District in January after they were arrested earlier that month.
The formal charges against the two were filed Jan. 8. An additional charge of assault and battery was Filed against Corum on Feb. 3.
According to court records, Arnold is now set for the jury call docket this Friday.
Corum has waived his right to a speedy trial and informed the court he desires to hire private counsel, according to court records.
District Judge Cindy Ashwood has set the matter for Jan. 12, 2021 and a jury trial date of Feb. 1, 2021.
The case of a Meeker father charged in the near starvation of his then 15-year-old son more than two years ago was also set for trial in August.
Jimmy L. Jones, Sr., charged with child neglect, is scheduled for this Friday’s jury call docket and for the jury term that begins next Monday.
Jones, 34 at the time, originally faced felony charges of child abuse and child neglect. Later, the child abuse case was dropped.
In July of 2018, JJ was transported to and remained in OU Medical Center from July until sometime in October of that year. A 4-year-old sibling taken into protective custody was checked out at the hospital the day JJ was discovered.
She also was located inside the residence and released from the hospital the same day. She was placed in the custody of Department of Human Services, authorities had indicated.
Jones, the youth’s dad, Amy Adkins, identified as the teen’s stepmom, Jonathan Luke Plank, and Tyler Joe Adkins, the two brothers, were all charged in July of 2018.
All but Jimmy Jones were arrested at the residence at 101529 S. 3470 Road, Meeker at the time investigators discovered the youth.
He turned himself in on the following Monday.
Amy Jones, Adkins and Plank each faced a single felony charge of child neglect. All four were residing at 101529 S. 3470 Road, Meeker at the time investigators discovered the youth.
The case against Plank was later thrown out.