The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals issued a ruling Thursday to drop one charge against the getaway driver for David Ware.
Ware was found guilty of murdering a Tulsa police sergeant and badly wounding an officer after a trial in Tulsa last year.
Today, a judge agreed to dismiss one of the charges against Matthew Hall who was convicted of being an accessory in the deadly shooting of Tulsa Police Sergeant Craig Johnson.
A jury convicted Hall in 2021 for helping Ware flee the scene and dispose of the gun after Ware shot Johnson and Officer Aurash Zarkeshan in the summer of 2020.
Hall was convicted for two counts of being an accessory to a felony charge – shooting with intent to kill – but he appealed one conviction saying he had ineffective counsel and that he shouldn't have been charged with two identically-worded accessory counts.
The judge originally sentenced him to serve 24 years for those two convictions in March 2021. However, today, the court agreed he should have only been convicted of one charge of being an accessory instead of two.
The court has dismissed the second charge and the 12-year sentence that came with it.
Hall will now serve 12 years for the first charge.