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“Me and Loren (Sells) talked about it. She told me who she wanted to represent me. “I said, ‘Fine,’ and we went from there,” said Wyers, present with her attorney, Allen Smallwood.
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Before being charged, court records show that Connor helped Tulsan Loren Sells — who owned the massage businesses after her husband died — win back nearly $800,000 in proceeds because, as Brewster put it, authorities “botched the paperwork” to seize it as unlawful funds.
A Tulsa County judge dismissed a murder solicitation charge against a Delaware County attorney after finding insufficient evidence in his contact with one of his incarcerated clients, but the judge left intact counts of witness tampering and racketeering.
Seibert upheld related felony counts including pandering and committing a pattern of criminal offenses, including solicitation of prostitution, between January 2012 and August 2016.
The attorneys got at least some of the evidence related to Tate tossed after Seibert said she did not hear anything that clearly indicated solicitation for murder, though she acknowledged that the two communicated using a phone Tate obtained illegally.
Winston Connor walks through the Tulsa County Courthouse with his attorney Clark Brewster on Monday.
The Tulsa World obtained recordings in 2017 of Tate and Connor speaking to each other from Kenny Wright, the district attorney for Delaware and Ottawa counties. “They seized 10 million files from his office and his home and recovered nothing — because there was nothing,” Brewster said in court Thursday.
In opting to dismiss two of the counts, Special Judge April Seibert said recordings of communications between Connor and Slint Tate — a Grove man serving life without parole for a 2001 Rogers County murder — did not meet the legal burden of intent to solicit a homicide.
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Tate is not facing any new charges out of the investigation into the drug ring. The district attorney said, "I can't add to what's he got. He's already stuck there forever. ... And I would have the danger of having him in one of my county jails."
Kenny Wright , the district attorney for Delaware and Ottawa counties, said he has turned over the evidence to federal authorities and the state Attorney General's Office. He told The Oklahoman they have more resources to prosecute Connor if charges are filed.
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Connor's attorney, Stan Monroe, criticized the district attorney for making comments to the media. "Accusing Winston of criminal conduct is extraordinary inappropriate," Monroe said.
The lawsuit, filed in Delaware County District Court , states, “Wright knew that the statements and insinuations he made regarding the audio recording of the one and only telephone conversation between Slint Tate and Plaintiff Connor were false and misleading, yet he published such statements with malice, evidencing some ulterior and illicit purpose.”
In the audio recording, a copy of which was provided to the Tulsa World by Wright, Connor is heard talking about destroying a cellular telephone that Wright said had been linked to Tate’s drug trafficking.
In the conversation with Tate, Connor talks about a man who raped and murdered a Tulsa woman and assaulted another woman Connor had been dating at the time. The man is serving a life-without-parole sentence.
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In his lawsuit, Connor acknowledges talking to Tate but states that the two “merely engaged in a telephone conversation.”
Before being charged, court records show that Connor helped Tulsan Loren Sells — who owned the massage businesses after her husband died — win back nearly $800,000 in proceeds because, as Brewster put it, authorities “botched the paperwork” to seize it as unlawful funds.
A Tulsa County judge dismissed a murder solicitation charge against a Delaware County attorney after finding insufficient evidence in his contact with one of his incarcerated clients, but the judge left intact counts of witness tampering and racketeering.
Seibert upheld related felony counts including pandering and committing a pattern of criminal offenses, including solicitation of prostitution, between January 2012 and August 2016.
The attorneys got at least some of the evidence related to Tate tossed after Seibert said she did not hear anything that clearly indicated solicitation for murder, though she acknowledged that the two communicated using a phone Tate obtained illegally.
Winston Connor walks through the Tulsa County Courthouse with his attorney Clark Brewster on Monday.
The Tulsa World obtained recordings in 2017 of Tate and Connor speaking to each other from Kenny Wright, the district attorney for Delaware and Ottawa counties. “They seized 10 million files from his office and his home and recovered nothing — because there was nothing,” Brewster said in court Thursday.
In opting to dismiss two of the counts, Special Judge April Seibert said recordings of communications between Connor and Slint Tate — a Grove man serving life without parole for a 2001 Rogers County murder — did not meet the legal burden of intent to solicit a homicide.