Paula Gladden (How to Get Away with Murder)

Paula Gladden (Teya Patt) is a villainess from "I Got Played," episode 5.07 of How to Get Away with Murder (airdate November 8, 2018). She is a guard at a prison that had Nathaniel "Nate" Lahey, Sr. as an inmate.
The previous episode ended with Nate Sr. deceased, and it was originally revealed that he was shot and killed in supposed self-defense by prison guard Jim Wagner, after Nate Sr. stabbed Paula in the leg with a pen. It was also believed that Nate Sr. became angry and belligerent when Paula took a letter from him, but after his son, Nate Lahey, Jr., demanded an inquiry, it led to the conclusion that this was a premeditated murder.
Nate Sr. had been revealing that his prison's guard had been abusing inmates, leading to him being killed to cover it up. As Annalise Keating suggested, Paula stabbed herself as part of the ruse, with part of the plan including setting Nate Sr. up as an angry and violent Black man attacking an innocent White woman. Annalise's investigation revealed that while Wagner was clean, Paula was definitely not innocent, as she had been beating her husband. During the trial, the evil Paula responded to Ronald Miller's cross-examination by sticking to her story regarding Nate Sr., while also claiming that the domestic dispute was between her husband and her brother--despite a later revelation that the abuser was wearing a ring.
Miller was later ordered not to cross-examine Paula any further unless her abusive nature can be connected to Nate Sr.'s murder. During the episode's climax, the jury found Wagner and Paula not guilty and ruled that Nate Sr.'s death was justifiable homicide.
== Trivia ==
* Just weeks prior, Teya Patt appeared as an unnamed villainess in the pilot episode of The Rookie.
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