[10] In 2014, Tim Harris and other DAs, such as David Prater and Mike Fields, accused the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board of being mismanaged.
[11] In April 2017, Harris announced his campaign for the Republican Party's nomination for Oklahoma's 1st congressional district on a platform of protecting the First Amendment, families, and veterans.
[22] Another Tulsa Attorney, Lynn Worley, who attended the trail, accused Harris of catering to the rich Carlton family.
[25] On September 30, 2022, the podcast hosts filed Post Conviction Relief for April Wilkens, claiming that evidence was suppressed during trial,[26][27][28][29] which would fall under the definition of a brady violation.
On June 18 2019, the conviction of Corey Atchison was overturned and he was determined innocent after Tulsa County district Judge Sharon Holmes found the initial trial involved witness coercion and the failure to timely inform his defense counsel of evidence.
Current Tulsa County District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler defended Harris's tenure as DA.
According to the Tulsa World, Tim Harris all along possessed a 1995 report from the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation showing that Murphy’s blood type was different from that found at the scene.
[46][47][48] A judge later rejected attempts by Harris detractors to have him found in contempt for having “purposefully and willfully misled the jury” in the Murphy case.
[2] In 2021, Harris helped file "a motion for dismissal of a then-86-year-old indictment" of 56 Black men, including A. J. Smitherman, related to the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.
[54] Harris placed second in the nonpartisan elections, but no candidate received a majority, so he advanced to a runoff with the front-runner Susan Bryant Lamkin.
[55] In the runoff election Harris campaigned on calls for a forensic audit of Tulsa Public Schools and cutting the salaries of the Superintendent, Deborah Gist, and other district administration.
The Black Wall Street Times reported a large portions of Harris's donations came from out-of-state donors and conservative political action committees.