Okmulgee County district attorney Rob Barris wants District Judge Kenneth Adair disqualified from hearing any cases the DA’s office will be prosecuting.
In a lawsuit filed Monday in Okmulgee County, the DA claims Adair can’t be impartial. He says Judge Adair has ruled, “two different Oklahoma Highway Patrol officers, one Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs agent, one Okmulgee police officer, the office of the district attorney and specifically the DA’s chief investigator as being involved in the presentation of false or untrue evidence to the court.”
Barris said those statements along with some court rulings show a pattern of Judge Adair’s conduct.
In a 17-page suit, the district attorney claims Adair has entered evidence into the record from his own opinion and even refused a legal motion to refute those facts.
One instance cited by Barris claims Judge Adair violated a judicial ethics rule by going by himself to a crime scene to investigate. That rule prohibits judges from investigating, “facts in a matter independently, and shall consider only the evidence presented and any facts that may be properly judicially noticed.”
Judge Adair is also being named in a court filing with the state Supreme Court by FountainView Manor.
That filing deals with a 2015 case by the Henryetta nursing home against Howard Nelson “Buck” Sheward.
The filing is asking for another judge to be assigned to the case before it goes to a Sept. 18 jury trial.

Download a copy of the filing HERE: {phocadownload view=file|id=24|target=s}