Find the original document here.
OCR file:
State of Oklahoma’s motion for an extension of time to respond 2022:
PCR
Background on Tulsa Police officer Laura Fadem, who testified against April Wilkens during trial:
April’s attorneys recently filed for Post Conviction Relief for April Wilkens. Link includes exhibits (our earlier post has these same documents with OCR, text searchable). Laura Fadem’s testimony appears to be called into question in these documents.
Laura Fadem, born in 1958, testified against April Wilkens in 1998. You can learn more about what she said during the trial in episode 7, “Ninja in the Night – Part 2” of Panic Button: The April Wilkens Case.
Laura Fadem lied under oath previously, before April’s trial, and should not have been allowed as a witness during April Wilkens’s trial. This is part of new evidence brought to light in the latest Post Conviction Relief filing from Sept. 30, 2022 (read a statement from April’s attorneys at this post).
From a Tulsa World, Sept. 5, 1990 article:
The suit also states that Mrs. Shallcross and the attorneys rehearsed Fadem on what she should say at the divorce trial about her assets. Then, she claims, the three “attempted to have (Fadem) prosecuted for the false testimony they induced her to give.”
Shallcross called that allegation a “cheap shot, and it’s not going to fly.”
Staples wanted to ensnare Fadem’s father into “wrongdoing for the purpose of extorting money from him,” court records state.
Staples was the key prosecution witness in Grossich’s federal trial for wiretapping the telephones of his wife and daughters. Grossich was convicted in March 1989 and served 90 days in a federal jail.
Fadem claims “Staples contacted and reached an accord with Clark O. Brewster. What the defendants failed to accomplish separately they now attempted to achieve in concert.”
This post may be updated as more information comes to light.
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