Ellen Wink, the former Norwalk official accused of killing her tenant, will now go on trial in the first week of June -and not just on a charge of murder.

Judge John Blawie granted the prosecution's request to combine that case with Wink’s other pending case involving the victim, Kurt Lametta. On Sept. 18, 2021—about four months before Lametta was shot to death—Norwalk police arrested Wink for changing the locks on the Nelson Avenue home where Lametta was living and throwing out his belongings. She was charged with criminal lockout, a misdemeanor.

On Wednesday, as both sides appeared in Stamford Superior Court, Assistant State’s Attorney Margaret Moscati said the prosecution filed a motion to bring in four other incidents between Wink and Lametta as “uncharged misconduct.”

Moscati said three of the incidents have police reports, where officers responded but didn’t make any arrests. The other pertains to a video that Moscati said investigators recovered from Lametta’s phone. All of them occurred between the date of the lockout and the homicide, Jan. 20, 2022. Wink and Lametta had a history of problems after Lametta allegedly stopped paying rent and Wink wanted him out.

“Quite candidly, Your Honor, they sort of tell the story and go towards the motive of Ms. Wink,” Moscati stated.

Attorney Stephan Seeger objected to those incidents coming in at trial, calling them, “more prejudicial than probative.” Seeger said they play into the prosecution’s unfair and false narrative that Wink was a bad landlord and therefore killed her tenant.

The defense will be presenting at least one alternative theory to the jury. Seeger gave notice of three possible defenses but said it’s unknown if the jury will be allowed to consider all of them.

“There's an extreme emotional disturbance defense, there's a self-defense claim, and there's a mental disease or defect claim,” Seeger said. “They may or may not be defenses the jury gets instructed on. We're not sure at this point. There are some hoops we have to jump through to sustain those defenses, as well, and that's part of our defense strategy. The experts will figure prominently in that.”

Jury selection was supposed to begin next week but was pushed to May 13.

The trial, which is expected to last about two weeks, won’t center on whether Wink shot and killed Lametta, but whether it was murder. After the shooting, Wink called 911 and said she fired at Lametta five times because he "came at her," according to a police report. A psychologist is expected to testify to Wink’s state of mind.

During prior hearings, Seeger argued Wink was afraid of Lametta and said he'd gotten ahold of an audio recording of Lametta that bolsters that. Seeger said it included Lametta making threats against Wink and using homophobic and antisemitic language.

But the prosecution countered Wink wasn't in danger or provoked on the day of the shooting and said graphic video from the victim's phone backs that up. Lametta was apparently recording their dispute and ended up capturing his own death. Search warrants about the footage said the confrontation began after Wink let herself into the home to clean out the fridge because she was putting the house up for sale.

"Lametta asked Wink how she thinks she has the right to come into his house without any notice," according to one search warrant. It went on to state, "Just as Wink turns around and appears to walk away from Lametta, two gunshots are heard, and Wink is heard saying, 'You Bastard' as she proceeds to walk toward Lametta through the kitchen while firing a handgun at Lametta."

Wink has been out of custody but on house arrest with GPS monitoring since September 2022 when she was released after posting 10% of her $2.5 million bond in cash. She initially was living in the home where the shooting occurred but sold the property in 2023.

Wink was the Republican deputy registrar for the City of Norwalk at the time of the shooting but was fired after being charged with murder.