Fontenot's case was the focus of the John Grisham book 'The Innocent Man' and a later Netflix documentary series by the same name.
on the path to potential freedom.
U.S. District Judge James Payne of Muskogee, Oklahoma, has ruled there was reasonable doubt that Karl Fontenot should have been convicted in 1988 in the kidnapping and killing of Ada convenience store clerk Denice Haraway in 1984.Fontenot's case was the focus of the John Grisham bookIn Payne's opinion filed Wednesday, he found that Fontenot's mental illnesses raised serious questions about the validity of his uncorroborated confession.
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