Kim Davis, Advocate Investigator

by Grace Winterwood, posted in Featured, Kathleen Zellner, Law, Uncategorized, Wrongful Convictions

The public is starting to look hard at the case of Daniel Holtzclaw, and with good reason. From the very first interviews right up until his sentencing, maneuvers were made to convict this police officer. That might sound trite, because after all, don’t we want rapists convicted, and taken off the streets? We do, if they are actually rapists and a danger to society. The problem with this case is there was no investigative work done to find a rapist. Instead of investigating a crime to find a person, they investigated a person to find a crime. The focus was never on anyone other than Daniel Holtzclaw at any given time. Not even when the victims blatantly described someone other than Daniel Holtzclaw as being their attacker. Kim Davis played an instrumental role in this farcical investigation and prosecution. The question we need to ask now is why?

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By the time the Daniel Holtzclaw case landed on her desk, Kim Davis had already had a long career in law enforcement. Retirement was not too terribly far off, and she had a lot of experiences in her rear-view. As with any law enforcement officer, some of those were good and some weren’t. Regardless of good or bad on the experience scale, each served to form her into the detective she was at the time of the Holtzclaw investigation. As people review the tape of Daniel’s interview with Kim Davis and Rocky Gregory, and subsequent interviews she granted to various press outlets, one thing became clear to them. Kim Davis behaved more as a victim advocate than an unbiased investigator. By her own admission, she came away from her initial interview with Jannie Ligons convinced Daniel Holtzclaw was guilty. To put this clearly, a detective decided a fellow officer was guilty strictly on the say-so of one woman with no evidence to back up the story. That isn’t investigation, by any stretch of the imagination. That was simply a lynching in the making.

Once the wheels were set in motion after that interview, it simply became a case of finding ways to support that assumption of guilt. This wasn’t easy to do, since there was no evidence against Daniel Holtzclaw. There was a video, dark and grainy, that showed the traffic stop from a distance, but did nothing to confirm Ligons’ allegations of sexual assault. That was it. Nothing else existed. No fingerprints, no DNA, no incriminating SANE test results, nothing. Where an investigator would have taken a step back and reassessed, the advocate in Kim Davis wouldn’t allow that. So began the all-out assault on Daniel Holtzclaw, as a fellow officer, a man, and as a person. Why?

Some 25 years before Kim Davis even thought of retiring, she was an officer, just like Daniel. Her name was Kim Kelly back then, and she was eager to make a difference in the world. Officer Kelly was called to a local store for a little girl that had wandered in, barefoot, needing a ride home. Kim Kelly took her shopping at Payless for a four pairs of shoes, and then took her home. It was an honorable thing to do, a good thing to do, and it made a lasting impact on that little girl. Kim Davis was honored for it 25 years later, and donated the award money to another retired officer facing a mountain of bills from a motorcycle accident. This was also the good, honorable, and decent thing to do. No one can really accuse Kim Davis of not trying to do the right thing for victims, or those she perceives to be victims.

Kim Davis has also faced her share of heartache and controversy. Her long-time partner committed suicide at the police station during a rape trial that he and Davis had investigated. One cannot imagine the double blow, and how this must have felt to her. Partners in public safety roles become very close, like family in a very real sense. Not only did she have to face the loss of her partner, she had to face the loss of the rape case, which was declared a mistrial. Grappling with the emotions that survivors of suicide victims always deal with must have been debilitating. However much it rankled, the mistrial was the right thing, because the grief would have certainly clouded her judgment. I am sure the victim didn’t see it this way either, which is understandable. The feeling that the system failed a rape victim had to have had a lasting effect on Davis. All in all, it is better to have a clean conviction, though, than have an unstable one, as Kim Davis and Rocky Gregory are certainly learning now.

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As the years passed, Kim Davis (Kelly) had a few encounters that bolstered her inherent dislike for the bad guys as well. In 1995, during a raid on a suspected crack house, Kim Kelly was attacked while attempting to stop one of the people trying to flee the scene. During the struggle, he head-butted her, rendering her unconscious for close to 20 minutes. If someone knocks you out in a fight, you are certainly going to harbor a grudge. If that someone is a suspected drug dealer, then that grudge will naturally follow in all interactions with the same type of people. Again, this can cloud the judgment of an investigator. Bias, whether the detective realizes it is present or not, can cause a great deal of damage in an investigation.

Interactions like these over the years is what shaped Kim Davis. It appears that Kim Davis believes that the system isn’t balanced between victim and offender. While that may be true, it is not a detective’s job to achieve that balance, or worse yet, to unfairly tip the scales in favor of victims, putting innocent lives at risk in the process. This is exactly what happened in the case of Daniel Holtzclaw. Had Kim Davis set bias aside, and just for a moment, questioned what she thought she knew, this case might have had a different outcome. Had she acknowledged that there was more evidence to support Daniel Holtzclaw’s version of that traffic stop than Jannie Ligons’ version, this case might have had a different outcome. Unfortunately, she did neither.

Kim Davis entered into this case with a blind conviction that Daniel Holtzclaw was guilty, and nothing was going to dissuade her from that. And if the evidence didn’t support that conviction, they would hunt up ways to make it support it. If nobody credible (Shaneice Barksdale) willingly came forward to support this conviction, they would search until they found women who could be steamrolled into making accusations. In light of the lack of actual physical evidence, they would crush Daniel Holtzclaw under the sheer number of accusers. Even if it meant coaching them (Jannie Ligons), coaxing them (Terri Morris), browbeating them (Carla Raines), or disregarding what they actually said (Sherry Ellis). Throw in Rocky Gregory’s mother-in-law as the lab technician that tested the scant DNA found, and who would obviously prefer to see her son-in-law succeed rather than fail, and you have a perfect storm for wrongful conviction.

All because it never once occurred Kim Davis to question what she thought she knew. She retired as a detective, but in practice she was not. She was a victim advocate, willing to persecute and prosecute an innocent man in her misguided sense of justice. This makes her every bit as criminal as the people she swore to keep the public safe from. One has to wonder if she is worried now about Daniel Holtzclaw’s wrongful conviction. After all, a lot of new evidence has come to light, and in a big way. Thanks to investigative reporting done by Michelle Malkin, and investigative legwork done by Brian Bates, It’s becoming clearer and clearer that this was not a legitimate investigation.

Is it clear yet to Kim Davis? One can only hope.

34 thoughts on “Kim Davis, Advocate Investigator”

  1. Mam: I have two questions:
    1 why didn’t Daniel Testify?

    2. I would like you to watch the interrogation tape from point 20 minutes to 40 minutes: Daniel says “that I recall” for an event that happened 10 hours before: can u comment on that
    Thanks

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    1. Daniel didn’t testify on the advice of his trial counsel at that time. Defendant testimony is always a toss up, in any trial.

      “That I recall” is a figure of speech, where he is letting investigators know that his recall is different from the scenario that they are presenting. Total recall also isn’t a given for anyone. For example, do you recall how many times you touched your face 10 hours ago? Important to note that Daniel Holtzclaw’s version of events that night never varied, however Jannie Ligons’; version of events took a few tellings to “gel” into the final complaint.
      Great questions, by the way!

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      1. That I recall” is not a figure of speech. It’s a legal term.
        You seem extremely biased.
        Daniel is beyond guilty.
        It would not have mattered who investigated this. The evidence of guilt was simply overwhelming.
        Cops don’t friend crackhead hookers from the other side of town on Facebook. Or take them around back of abandoned buildings. Or do stops at 2am alone without calling it in with your full system shut down.
        Get a hold on reality for the love of god. The DNA of an underage girl who he had multiple and cell phone contact with in and outside his fly. Did not get there magically on its own either.
        If that were true then it means that cops around the world have DNA of women and men inside theyr fly at any given time.

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    2. Determination. Kim Davis, should be charged in this matter and be strip of her retirement and pay officer Daniel for every day spent behind bars, and for the Judge in this case should be charged and those that was involved, Daniel’s attorney should reimburse his parents there money cause he two violated this man rights. Lord I asked bring everything to light and Victory in his name

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    3. Kim Davis interrogation of Holtzclaw was despicable. She framed him and misrepresented and lied about many of the facts to deliberately and conivingly take this officer down.

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  2. Thank you for doing the research and taking the time to dig into the “why” behind the actions of Kim Davis, an investigator (like so many others) who came to a place where she was unable and/or unwilling to conduct an non-biased investigation. As a fellow citizen journalist who has struggled with defining this dynamic and the destruction it causes, I gained new insight through your perspective in this article. It is still impossible (at least for me) to overcome the outrage I feel that Kim Davis, and others like her who abuse their power in this way, enjoy freedom (and a pension) while the innocent remain behind prison bars.

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      1. and you have a closed mind. Read look into it yourself .Bet you haven’t done that. but you can say he is Guilty well if he is Then you are the most open mind person who looks into all to see the facts! lol people need to open their eyes to the way they investigate crimes .seems to me they are committing crimes to prove something that is not fact or true What happened to true Justice??

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    2. She set Daniel up,I’m sure it probably doesn’t even bother her Conscience at all.she did it for her benefit and to look good for the black community of okc.

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  3. I, too, have a hard time with the way the investigators in this case handled this. The vast majority of the general public thinks our criminal justice system operates the way it is portrayed on shows like ‘Law and Order’, but sadly this is not the case. With prosecutorial immunity unfortunately comes the ability to accept practices like this, because there is no need to fear consequences. Since the prosecutors rarely object, the police take it as an unspoken agreement that work like this is OK. The focus becomes number of convictions over actual justice, and that is a practice that needs to stop.

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      2. My thoughts: It is my understanding that Scott Adams has an excellent reputation as a defense attorney. That is what makes his representation of Daniel Holtzclaw sop disappointing. His DNA experts should have caught the discrepancies, and testified about them. Instead he didn’t have them testify at all. He should have made sure the jury understood cross-contamination, but did not, etc. I can only hope that this is not his usual effort in representing clients, as it clearly fell short of the mark in this instance.

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      3. I’m a bit curious about Adams also. You’d think being in Oklahoma I would know more about him. What I have heard about him has left me with red flags and question marks.

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    2. Kim (The psychic) Davis dug up 2 eye witnesses in a murder trail that she needed to erest 2 guys she had a gut feeling about, in a murder trail, until the defense attorney pointed out that these to guy were in jail during the murder, so tell us Kim Davis where did these two eyewitnesses come from and who spoon-fed them the information, someone really needs to investigate her former cases there’s no telling how many innocent people she’s put in jail over her gut feeling , when I see her all I think of is (((evil psychopath narcissist))) Kim Davis is the real Criminal and belongs in jail and pension took it away from her she’s a disgrace to people who wears the badge

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  4. As an unbiased (I’m a Brit, lived here all my life) person. I must admit, this case intrigued me from the start! It’s almost too difficult to know where to start? Yes, Holzclaw did throw out a few ‘wobblies’ such as, not doing a complete recording of the traffic stop that significant night but, for me, the two detectives involved, made the narrative from the very start and, for whatever reasons, decided to stick with it. They stuck with it, manufactured ‘victims’ as and when the case required and clearly, at no point in the entire (Flawed!!) investigation, did Holzclaw ever receive the benefit of the doubt! Even now, from some 6000 miles away, following hundreds of hours reading and questioning documentary and other ‘evidence’ I can only come to a conclusion that Daniel is innocent? Sadly, being unconnected and some 6000 miles away, I wish there was something that could be done to re-open the entire investigation by an unbiased investigation because Daniel, is, and remains, innocent!!

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    1. Hello Barry Hewitt I know this is an old post but I have only recently been researching Daniel’s case, abut 3 months now. I believe, 100%, that Daniel is innocent. I have created a Discord server dedicated to Daniel. If you’re interested, you can download the app Discord.com and then search for Daniel’s Truth. Also, I am co-hosting a YouTube channel where we are LIVE weekly discussing Daniel’s case. Subscribe to “Not My Verbiage” on YouTube. We are working with someone involved with Daniel and his family who is helping us deep dive into the case. We have a great group of researchers on both Discord and YouTube! You may also contact me @ southr62@gmail.com, if you prefer.
      Thank you!

      Rhonda

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  5. One mght reasonably wonder if Holtzclaw’s trial would have had a different outcome if he had a defense attorney other than Scott Adams. Surely there are other successful, well-regarded defense attorneys in the Tulsa area who never represented employees of the prosecutor’s office. If Adams successfully defended other clients prosecuted by Prater’s office, then it is fair to question how he failed to successfully defend Holtzclaw.

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  6. Kim Davis is a disgusting sub human animal for what she did to Daniel! I wonder how much she was paid to lie and cheat, to make sure he was prosecuted. They needed a call guy, and chose him. Maybe it was random, who knows. Rest assured…there is a very special place wait for you in HELL Kim! You degenerate!

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  8. Canadian County Sheriff West appears to be attempting to emulate Bob Macey including the ridiculous hat, the constantly altered stories and persistent lies along with numerous corrupt courtroom tactics all in cooperation with two Canadian County judges, both named McCurdy.

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  10. Kim Davis practices junk science! She needs to go back to school because she is incompetent! Oklahoma will need to pay out a huge debt. She certainly knows how to start a race war! Who is smarter in the group it looks like Legins! God will get Kim Davis and it will not be pretty. Carma is a bitch!

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  12. This whole case is very disheartening. I remember back when it occurred but never looked into it before catching a repeat of a 20/20 episode…
    I remember when you had to be proven guilty of a crime without any reasonable doubt. How can a person prove themself innocent of accusations? Words!? Why was he “guilty” having to prove himself innocent? Kim Davis from the beginning of the investigation said “she was going to put him in jail” I quote. She was on a mission looking for people to corroborate her story. There was no proof of anything in this case. A good detective should be looking for truth and justice. This woman was looking for a case against Danial from the beginning. And Danial was the VERY unlucky person held accountable for every crime this community felt has ever been done to or against a Black person. That’s all this was! “Why would these women make these allegations up?” I heard these words come out of a jurors and Kim Davis mouth… Because they were MORE than happy to help in anyway put a police office behind bars. Any police officer!! It wasn’t Danial they were after. Danial was the one that Kim Davis gave to these woman and this community. They didn’t care which cop it was! Guaranteed accusations could be made against a cop RIGHT NOW and they’d find more than enough people to testify against the cop. It’s truly sad a person could lose their freedom so easily with ZERO factual evidence…
    Kim Davis and all these women will stand alone one day in front of the all mighty. They’ll be held accountable for taking this mans life from him. If Danial is the person he says and portrays. He’ll have an eternity of heavenly bliss.

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  13. Kim is a joke! She saw an opportunity to go out with a bang and when Daniele gets released after proving his innocence, I hope Kim and all the females that helped her fabricate this lie so many years in prison. Most of which are already serving time. She claims to be a victim’s advocate but put them in a position that will land them behind bars. What an idiot!

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  15. According to an article by The Guardian, it says Daniel was being investigated 6 weeks prior to the Ligons case. But in all my time researching this case, I had never heard that before. Do you know if The Guardian might be incorrectly assuming it was Daniel OR could it be that OKC police was investigating someone but not necessarily Daniel? Possibly the “short black guy” cop (I can’t remember his name)…Here’s the link to the article: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/11/daniel-holtzclaw-questions-police-chiefs-rape-oklahoma

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  16. Oronically your article does exactly what you accuse the Detective of doing. In your blinded reporting you never mention the piles of sexual reports women had already filed and partlybecause of who the reporters were, had not really been investigated. Any officer who says they dont get a gut feeling of guilt or
    innocence after interviewing the victim amd the primary suspect. No one has ever tried one sec to explain his actions that night. Every thing hi did was conterintuitive to yje votrect process he had been logged out,.he had lit up a car on suspicion of dwi found she had been drinking and she had a bottle of pain pills and no licence. So what should the officer had done? I say at the leastcall on duty back up or as least make it clear she was mot driving home that night. The women made it hard to makesome of what she said hearable. NONE OF WHAT HE DID.

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  18. Grace, I have so much to say about this case! First and most importantly, I believe %, in Daniel’s innocence. I only learned about Daniel’s case about 3 months ago. Since then, I have begun to create an army of believer’s which includes someone who visits Daniel (pre-pandemic), talks to him regularly on the phone, and spends time with his family on a regular basis. My methods of bringing awareness and deep diving the case include a Discord server that I have created and is growing. You can find it by downloading the Discord app. Discord.com and searching for the server, “Daniel’s Truth” and I am a co-host on a YouTube channel “Not My Verbiage”. For anyone who reads this and believes in Daniel’s innocence, I invite and encourage you to please find me and my team. Both of these are new groups but we need as many people to join and participate as we can possibly get! And Grace, this article is proof that you have great insight and knowledge of who Kim Davis is and was. I was fascinated by the backstory you gave. Please, all believer’s join me in this fight for Daniel’s freedom. When you join Daniel’s Truth and participate in the LIVE YouTube videos, please let me know that you saw it here. Grace, I hope that YOU will join us~

    Rhonda

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