Jesse Butler: What the Marsy's Law Fight Just Exposed
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Tony Brueski
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🗓️ 10 April 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
A judge ordered the DA to testify. That alone tells you how this case is going. The Jesse Butler case in Stillwater, Oklahoma has now split open into three simultaneous legal battles — a criminal Marsy's Law challenge that could void his plea deal, a federal civil lawsuit alleging school officials and city employees protected him while a vulnerable student was being assaulted, and ongoing youthful offender supervision with an August expiration date that could erase everything.
Butler pleaded no contest to multiple felony sexual assault and strangulation charges against two high school students. He faced up to 78 years. He received community service, counseling, and daily check-ins. His father was a former football operations director at Oklahoma State and an assistant athletic director for the school district.
The victims say they were never meaningfully consulted before prosecutors finalized a deal that kept Butler out of prison. Their attorney filed a constitutional challenge. The state tried to dismiss it. The judge rejected the dismissal and scheduled an evidentiary hearing for April 13 — with the DA expected to testify as a witness, not as the prosecutor.
Meanwhile, the same office is opposing youthful offender status for another Stillwater teen with less severe charges, and a federal lawsuit has named school officials who allegedly failed to enforce a protective order, intimidated the victim, and told the victim's parents not to hold a school resource officer's friendship with the Butler family against him.
Butler turns 19 in August.
The clock is running. The victims and their families are the only reason this case is still being examined. April 13 is the moment of truth.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:03.0 | Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:06.2 | Well, this pathetic blob of human excrement is back in the news. |
| 0:10.6 | A district attorney is about to take the witness stand, not to prosecute a case, but to explain how she handled one. |
| 0:18.8 | On April 13th, in a Payne County courtroom in Stillwater, Oklahoma, DA, Laura Thomas is expected to testify in an evidentiary hearing ordered by Judge Michael Culling. |
| 0:30.1 | She won't be there as the state's representative running the show. |
| 0:33.4 | She'll be there answering questions under oath about how Jesse Mac Butler, a young man, or as I like to refer to him as a sad excuse of walking human excrement, in my opinion, who pled no contest to attempted first degree R, are by instrumentation, forcible, M, S, domestic A, and battery by strangulation, |
| 0:57.6 | S battery, a violation of a protective order, ended up, I know, do you love the word salad there, |
| 1:03.3 | be like, why are you speaking like that? Why? Because there's a certain platform that we |
| 1:08.7 | play this back on, and they don't like words that |
| 1:11.9 | make people feel uncomfortable i know it's fucking stupid i can say effing but i can't say some of |
| 1:17.8 | these other words because it's like that makes people uncomfortable we don't want we don't want to |
| 1:21.6 | make anybody uncomfortable so if we'd like to get the message out we have to watch our words it is what it is i too think it's |
| 1:30.6 | b s but it is what it is a judge looked at the filings and decided sworn testimony is the only |
| 1:38.5 | way to sort out who's telling the truth about what happened behind the scenes it's not a |
| 1:42.0 | formality that's a system being forced to explain itself. |
| 1:46.1 | For anyone who's been following this case, |
| 1:50.2 | April 13th isn't just another court date. |
| 1:54.0 | It might be the last real chance a system has to correct itself |
| 1:57.9 | before the window closes for good. |
| 2:08.6 | Okay. has to correct itself before the window closes for good let me explain why it's not just the anniversary of when the titanic sank oh it's actually the 14th jesse butler was arrested in march of |
| 2:17.4 | twenty five at his home inwater, after two female students at Stillwater High School came forward with the allegations of repeated S assault and strangulation. |
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