Walters v. Oklahoma Ethics Commission

OPALA, Justice,

with whom SIMMS, Justice, joins concurring.

David Walters [appellee or Walters], the Democratic Party’s nominee for governor in the 1986 general election, came under investigation by the Oklahoma Ethics Commission [Commission] for an alleged breach of the Oklahoma Ethics Commission Act [Act].1 After hearings the Commission found the evidence sufficient to show a violation of 74 O.S.Supp.1986 §§ 4202(6), 4216 and 4219 of the Act2 and ordered that a complaint be referred to the district attorney for consideration of criminal charges. Implicit in this referral was the Commission’s…