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PM UPDATE: Hearing held for former state sheriff Tyler, 33, testified that Burgess also grabbed her buttocks during a trip to Oklahoma City in 2004 and groped her outside a courtroom in 2005.
“There was kind of like a groping session there,” Tyler said. “He’s laughing. He thinks it’s funny.” Under cross-examination by defense attorney Tim Henderson, Tyler said she did not report the incidents to anyone in the sheriff’s office but told her husband what had happened. “Why didn’t you turn around and knock him out right there?” Henderson asked. Tyler responded: “Looking back, I wish I would have. “I needed a job.” Henderson also questioned Tyler about reports she was occasionally flirtatious with her co-workers, but Tyler described her relationship with other deputies as like brothers and sisters. “I’m not ashamed of my behavior,” Tyler said. Burgess, 55, faces up to 467 years in prison if convicted on all counts. Another of Burgess’ attorneys, Steve Huddleston of Oklahoma City, has said Burgess is eager to go to court and clear his name. Burgess also faces two counts each of sexual battery, rape by instrumentation and subornation of perjury as well as one count each of engaging in a pattern of criminal offenses, indecent exposure and kidnapping. Burgess resigned in April from the position he had held since 1994. 
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