Each judicial district in Oklahoma has one District Court, and its power covers every kind of case (Okla. Const. art. VII § 7). For this county, that is the District Court of Greer County in Judicial District 3.

• Felonies, the crimes that can mean state prison, are filed in District Court.
• State misdemeanors, a step down, mostly carry county jail time, fines or both. District Court hears these too.
• City tickets belong in the town's own municipal court. By the state constitution, a municipal court's reach stops at criminal and traffic cases (Okla. Const. art. VII § 1).
• Charges against minors open on District Court's juvenile docket.

Its bench has three levels. Voters choose district judges and associate district judges, and those judges appoint special judges. Tribal rulings since McGirt v. Oklahoma (2020) center on eastern Oklahoma. A tribal citizen charged here can ask a lawyer whether that matters.

Plan on Mangum for almost every hearing. Schedules move around, so phone first.

• District Court of Greer County, Court Clerk, 106 E. Jefferson, Mangum, OK 73554, 580-782-3665. Open 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Postal mail: P.O. Box 216, Mangum, OK 73554.
• Mangum Municipal Court, City Hall, 130 N. Oklahoma Ave., Mangum, OK 73554, 580-782-2250. Court sits in the City Hall Annex, 131 N. Oklahoma Ave., Mangum, OK 73554.
• U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma, Lawton clerk's office, 410 SW 5th Street, Lawton, OK 73501, 580-355-6340, weekdays 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Three places in the county are incorporated. Court setups differ:

• Mangum (a city of 2,683 in 2025) has a municipal court for city tickets, 130 N. Oklahoma Ave., Mangum, OK 73554, 580-782-2250. Its sessions have met at 1:30 p.m. on selected Tuesdays, and City Hall keeps the current dates.
• Granite (1,609 people) names a municipal court and a municipal judge in its town code.
• Willow (115 people) is the smallest of the three.

For a ticket from Granite or Willow, start with the District Court Clerk at 580-782-3665, who can tell you whether the town or the county court has it. No matter which town it came from, a state charge goes to the courthouse on Jefferson Street.

Expect a brief hearing. Guilt isn't decided here. The focus is the charge, the bond and a lawyer.

1. The judge reads out the accusation.
2. Bond gets set or looked at again, sometimes with rules attached.
3. A person who can't pay a lawyer may fill out the money form to request one.
4. A date for the next hearing goes on the calendar.

SB 1711 (2024) allows a video arraignment for a defendant lodged in a jail outside the county. Oklahoma law gives no fixed number of hours for this first step, so ask the clerk at 580-782-3665 about timing.

Most charges on the local docket are misdemeanors. A first DUI, simple drug possession and theft below $1,000 fit here. The last two dropped out of felony range on July 1, 2017, when State Question 780 took effect.

• The prosecutor's office opens the case with a written charge.
• At arraignment, a plea is entered and bond can be revisited.
• Lots of cases settle by plea agreement. A misdemeanor trial in District Court uses a jury of six.
• Penalties run to county jail, a fine, or both together.

Repeat DUI arrests skip the bond schedule entirely: a judge sets the amount and writes down why (HB 1222). And under Spybuck v. State, decided by the Court of Criminal Appeals in July 2025, a misdemeanor that might bring jail comes with a right to a lawyer.

Felonies move more slowly and pass through these stages:

1. Filing. Prosecutors put the felony in a written charge at the courthouse.
2. Arraignment. The charge is read, and bond is set or checked. Nobody pleads guilty or not guilty yet.
3. Preliminary hearing. It is no trial. Prosecutors must convince the judge that an offense occurred here and that probable cause links the defendant to it.
4. Plea or trial. A case that survives that hearing heads toward a plea bargain or a jury of 12.
5. Sentencing. Credit for jail days already served is ordered in almost every case.

A felony from January 1, 2026 onward carries a letter class. The scale starts with Y and A1 for the worst crimes and ends with D2 and D3. New set ranges were written just for classes C and D. Offenses from 2025 or earlier stay under the sentencing law of their date. SB 325 sets speedy trial review points: 9 months if jailed only on this case, 18 months if free.

Yes. Under the 2026 classes, violent felonies fill the Y, A and B groups, and nearly every stage is tougher.

• Bail. After a hearing, a judge can order the person held without bail (Okla. Const. art. II § 8). Someone already free on bond for a violent case who is charged with new violence faces a presumption of staying locked up (HB 3782).
• Serving 85%. A conviction on a listed crime means 85% of the prison term passes before the parole board can look at release. Murder in the first degree is on it, and so are robbery with a dangerous weapon, burglary in the first degree and child abuse.
• Life sentences. For those crimes, life is figured as 45 years, so a parole look comes only after 38 years and 3 months.
• Victims. The injured person can address the judge before bond is set, a deal is accepted or a sentence is given.

Cases like these need a defense lawyer from day one, so request one at the first hearing.

Voters elect the prosecutor for District 3, who files charges in this county. The same office handles Harmon, Jackson, Kiowa and Tillman counties.

• District Attorney, local office: 106 E. Jefferson, Room 6, Mangum, OK 73554, 580-782-3653.
• Oklahoma Indigent Defense System, Altus office: 123 W Commerce St, Suite 100, Altus, OK 73521, 580-782-2429. Its lawyers take the cases of people a judge rules too poor to hire counsel across the district's five counties.

The request form for a public lawyer comes from the Court Clerk, 580-782-3665, or from jail staff for someone in custody. Filing costs $40, which lands in the Court Fund. A judge may let the person pay that fee later, once the case ends. Phoning OIDS won't get someone a lawyer, since appointment is up to the judge.

For record searches, the Court Clerk points people to Oklahoma District Court Records (ODCR). Some tips for searching:

• Enter the name exactly as it reads on the arrest paperwork.
• Copy down the case number when the case turns up.
• Read the docket lines to spot the coming hearing.

A phone call settles any doubt. Give the clerk at 580-782-3665 a full name and birth date. City ticket dates come from Mangum's court, 580-782-2250.

Sheriff's deputies serve warrants countywide, 580-782-3065. See its Most Wanted page and the Wanted Persons tab in the Sheriff's app. State lists include an Attorney General 10 Most Wanted list and the corrections department's Orange Alert page for escapes. The U.S. Marshals keep a 15 Most Wanted list. Search filed cases on ODCR, or ask the clerk by phone. To clear it, have a lawyer set up a turn-in before the issuing judge, or ask the clerk about posting bond and getting a fresh court date. Court Clerk: 106 E. Jefferson, Mangum, OK 73554, 580-782-3665.

Federal crimes here are prosecuted in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma. Mangum is one of the towns where federal law says that court may meet, but its clerks work in Oklahoma City and Lawton.

• Clerk: 200 NW 4th Street, Oklahoma City, OK 73102, 405-609-5000. Lawton branch: 410 SW 5th Street, Lawton, OK 73501, 580-355-6340.
• Prosecution: U.S. Attorney's Office, 210 Park Avenue, Suite 400, Oklahoma City, OK 73102, 405-553-8700.
• Defense: Federal Public Defender, 215 Dean A. McGee Avenue, Oklahoma City, OK 73102, 405-609-5930.
• Pretrial custody: U.S. Marshals Service, 200 NW 4th Street, Room 2022, Oklahoma City, OK 73102, 405-231-4206.

Release or detention before trial is settled at a hearing in front of a federal judge (18 U.S.C. 3142). After a sentence, check the Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator.

Charges in District Court keep moving. Immigration enters the picture at release time. In order:

1. Through Form I-247A, ICE requests that the Mangum jail hang on to the person.
2. That request covers up to 48 hours after they would otherwise be released (8 CFR 287.7(d)).
3. ICE officers from Dallas, whose field office covers Oklahoma, take custody. Office: 8101 N. Stemmons Frwy, Dallas, TX 75247, 972-367-2200.
4. In this state, ICE uses the Cimarron Correctional Facility, 3200 S. Kings Hwy., Cushing, OK 74023, 918-225-3336, among other places.
5. To track a detainee, use the ICE Online Detainee Locator.

Before any plea, a noncitizen should get a lawyer's view on immigration effects. Separately, HB 4156 (2024) made unlawful presence an Oklahoma crime, but it is on ice: a federal judge stopped it, and Oklahoma's Tenth Circuit appeal is still in progress.

Prison terms from state courts are carried out by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections, 4345 N. Lincoln Blvd, Oklahoma City, OK 73105, 405-425-2500.

• Sentenced people often sit in the county jail for months. DOC's normal pickup window is 6 to 9 months, with very short terms usually moved first.
• DOC staff then score the person at a reception site, and that points form fixes the custody level.
• Once moved, the person turns up in the DOC Offender Lookup.
• Facility profiles are on our Oklahoma prisons guide.

After transfer, the person's DOC case manager is the contact for family. Granite's Oklahoma State Reformatory is a state prison and never the county lockup.

Youth cases stay on the juvenile side of District Court in most situations. Greer belongs to the group of 73 counties under the Office of Juvenile Affairs, 2501 N. Lincoln Blvd, Suite 500, Oklahoma City, OK 73105, 405-530-2800.

• Police or deputies may hold a minor up to six hours for processing, separated from adult inmates.
• A held youth gets a detention hearing, typically by the next judicial day.
• Placement is chosen through OJA. Its list includes a Lawton center that keeps some beds for nearby counties, the Comanche County Regional Juvenile Detention Center, 701 SW 17th Street, Lawton, OK 73501, 580-357-2250.
• Older teens, ages 15 through 17, may be charged as youthful offenders for grave crimes, and certification shifts some cases to adult court.

For a teen's whereabouts, a parent should phone the Sheriff's Office, 580-782-3065.

Oklahoma voters wrote a Victims Bill of Rights into the constitution, now called Marsy's Law (Okla. Const. art. II § 34). Victims are owed dignity and fairness. Their voice counts at bond, plea and sentencing hearings, and they are owed full repayment of losses.

• Help through the case: the DA's victim-witness coordinator, 106 E. Jefferson, Room 6, Mangum, OK 73554, 580-782-3653. To get notices, write to that office. List the defendant, the case number and the county, along with your mailing address and phone number.
• Protective orders: Sheriff's Victim Services, 580-782-3065, assists with emergency orders. If the respondent is an inmate of the county jail, that order jumps the line, with a first service try within 24 hours (SB 623).
• Release alerts: register with VINELink or at 877-654-8463.
• Crime costs: the Crime Victims Compensation Program, 405-264-5006, can cover some medical care, counseling and missed wages.