Opinion No. (2008)

Dear Honorable Reynolds:

This office has received your request for an official Attorney General Opinion in which you ask, in effect, the following questions:

1. Are there any applicable constitutional, statutory or common law methods by which a statewide elected official may be suspended from office, voluntarily or involuntarily, prior to an actual conviction of a crime?

2. If the answer to number 1 is "yes," would the officeholder be entitled to keep the officeholder's statutory salary and/or continue to accrue credit toward the officeholder's retirement in the Oklahoma Public Employees…