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Karl Fontenot, 59, along with co-defendant Tommy Ward, 63, were twice found guilty of first degree murder in the death of 24-year-old Ada convenience store clerk Donna “Denise” Haraway and eventually sentenced to life in prison.
A Pontotoc County district judge ordered that Ward be released from prison, but the state appealed the order. The Court of Criminal Appeals overturned the order and reinstated the conviction and sentence on what it called a “procedural” issue.
OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – The so-called “Innocent Man” will stay in prison after a ruling from the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals. Two of Ward’s attorneys say they’re frustrated but they’re...
The court overturned a lower court decision that said because prosecutors and police withheld evidence that could exonerate Tommy Ward, 61, of the 1984 murder of Donna Denice Haraway in Ada.
Thomas Ward, known to the public as Tommy Ward, was convicted in 1999 of the 1984 murder of Donna Denice Haraway in Ada, Oklahoma. In 2020, District Judge Paula Inge vacated his conviction,...
The Court of Criminal Appeals ordered Tommy Ward, 60, to remain imprisoned while the state appeals the lower court’s ruling that he be released. Ward and a co-defendant, Karl Fontenot, were convicted and sentenced to life in prison in the 1984 kidnapping and killing of Donna Denice Haraway, a convenience store clerk in Ada, Oklahoma.
The state could ask for a rehearing before the entire court, appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, allow the case to be retried or allow Fontenot, who was released from prison in 2019 following the federal judge’s ruling, to be permanently freed.
Tommy Ward — one of the subjects of Netflix’s true-crime docuseries “The Innocent Man,” who was convicted of abduction, rape and the murder of an Oklahoma woman — is to be released from...
The federal judge gave prosecutors 120 days to seek a new trial or permanently release Fontenot from custody. That deadline was pushed back by an appeal that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Two Ada men, Fontenot and Tommy Ward, were sentenced to death at a 1985 murder trial even though the body of the victim had not yet been found. Both confessed involvement, saying the clerk was kidnapped and fatally stabbed after the store was robbed of $150.