An ex-Ramsey County jail medical assistant has avoided a prison sentence after admitting to helping inmate Delaquay Williams in one of his two murder cases by telling his co-defendants that someone was talking to police and prosecutors, or snitching on him.

Christine Lynn Satriano, as part of a 2022 plea deal with the Ramsey County Attorney’s Office, also agreed to testify against Williams in his first-degree premeditated murder trial in the shooting of Casanova Carter, 26, at his West Side home on Feb. 1, 2022. She did just that this month, testifying that Williams told her that he and his co-defendants, Kendall Dvontae Pruitt and Montez Dalray Davis, were present at Carter’s killing.

Jurors on Friday convicted Williams, 30, of all five charges against him, and he will receive a mandatory sentence of life in prison at a hearing scheduled for Jan. 29.

On Monday, Judge Edward Sheu sentenced Satriano according to terms of the 2022 plea deal for her felony aiding an offender charge. She was given one day of probation beyond the two years she completed while awaiting Williams’ trial. She also received a stay of imposition, meaning the conviction will be lowered to a misdemeanor.

The prosecution also agreed to rank the offense to a level that called for a three-month stayed prison sentence. Satriano had spent more than three months in jail before Sheu granted her a conditional release in November 2002.

Satriano, 57, of St. Paul, declined a reporter’s request for comment after her sentencing, adding: “Can you not destroy my life more than you have already?”

Racy calls, letters

According to the criminal complaint, jail deputies discovered Satriano had engaged in racy phone conversations with Williams, who had been arrested on suspicion of murdering Carter and Regis A. Jones less than a month later, also in St. Paul.

Williams, who goes by the nickname “Lee Blood,” is a member of St. Paul’s Hilltop Hustlers gang, and authorities suspect he fatally shot Jones to keep him from talking about Carter’s murder.

During a recorded jail phone call on July 2, 2022, Satriano told Williams she had to tell him information she learned but could not do it on the phone.

Two weeks later, Satriano told Williams she was asked to share something with him and he would know what it means, and then told him that someone is “talking,” or snitching on him. In another call, she told Williams that she had spoken with his sister “and they both want to help (him) out and will go meet someone or talk to someone and he just needs to let her know,” the complaint states.

St. Paul police officers and Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office deputies detained Satriano and recovered a purse and backpack containing a notebook, which held several handwritten, sexually explicit letters from Williams.

The letters included instructions for her to get a post office box and a new phone number through which to communicate with him and his sister. He also instructed her to pass the information she learned of to his two co-defendants, as well as others both within and outside of the jail.

Interviewed by authorities, Satriano admitted to having a flirtatious and emotional relationship with Williams and that on several occasions she also gave him medication he was not prescribed.

She said Williams asked her to tell people in the jail, including the co-defendants, that someone was talking about Carter’s killing. Williams then identified who was talking and she shared the name with the co-defendants, as well as people outside the jail, including Williams’ sister.

According to the complaint, not only does an accusation of “snitching” endanger the safety of others, “this type of intimidation … is used to obstruct investigations and prosecutions of gang cases.”