OK OK - Donna Haraway, 27, Ada, 28 April 1984

[kdgdid]

Up for parole in February:



http://newsok.com/after-nearly-40-y...ma-man-awaits-parole-decision/article/5389339

Did he receive parole?

 

[cybervampira]

Denice Haraway Murder: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know | Heavy.com

Donna Denise Haraway disappeared into thin air in April of 1984 while she was working a shift at a convenience store in Ada, Oklahoma. It was the second shocking criminal mystery in two years in the small Oklahoma town, after the rape and murder of Debbie Carter.

In the following years, Tommy Ward and Karl Fontenot were both charged and convicted with her murder. Their conviction largely hinged on their two separate “confessions,” which took place under controversial circumstances and have since been challenged by authors John Grisham and Rob Mayer, not to mention the Oklahoma Innocence Project.

Ward and Fontenot were tried and convicted before Haraway’s body was found. When her body was eventually found, her cause of death directly contradicted with the details in which Ward and Fontenot gave when they “confessed.”

The conviction of Ward and Fontenot is profiled in the new Netflix docu-series, The Innocent Man.

[...]

 

[Sylvia Ross]

So the real murderers are running loose while four innocent men sit rotting in jail. Our justice system is so broken, it needs to be overhauled completely.

 

[Berrybell]

Denice Haraway Murder: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know | Heavy.com

Donna Denise Haraway disappeared into thin air in April of 1984 while she was working a shift at a convenience store in Ada, Oklahoma. It was the second shocking criminal mystery in two years in the small Oklahoma town, after the rape and murder of Debbie Carter.

In the following years, Tommy Ward and Karl Fontenot were both charged and convicted with her murder. Their conviction largely hinged on their two separate “confessions,” which took place under controversial circumstances and have since been challenged by authors John Grisham and Rob Mayer, not to mention the Oklahoma Innocence Project.

Ward and Fontenot were tried and convicted before Haraway’s body was found. When her body was eventually found, her cause of death directly contradicted with the details in which Ward and Fontenot gave when they “confessed.”

The conviction of Ward and Fontenot is profiled in the new Netflix docu-series, The Innocent Man.

[...]

It has been ruled that they have to either retry or release Karl Fontenot within the next 120 days.

Sorry I had trouble get the links to post

Judge orders release or new trial for 'Innocent Man' defendant

Man featured in ‘The Innocent Man’ to be either released from prison or given new trial

 

[jaejae]

Here is another recent report about the developments in this case:

'Innocent Man' inmate to walk free, but for how long?

 

[bluejeanbaby]

Here is another recent report about the developments in this case:

'Innocent Man' inmate to walk free, but for how long?

Please forgive me if this sounds wicked stupid, but I'm just wondering how they could be allowed to retry him. Isn't that a constitutional violation? Also is there a page for Tommy Ward and Karl Fontenot on here?

 

[bluejeanbaby]

Also! What ever happened to Denice's husband?

 

[Marysmith]

Attorneys in ‘Innocent Man’ case eye federal court after lower court’s order is reversed

Attorneys for a man convicted for the 1984 kidnapping and murder of an Ada woman say they plan to file a federal case to try and overturn his conviction after the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals overturned a lower court’s order that would have made him a free man.

www.readfrontier.org

 

[imstilla.grandma]

However, the confessions were admitted as evidence in their retrials, and prosecutors hammered home one detail in the confessions they said anchored the men to the murder — a white blouse with blue floral print that Haraway’s family had discovered was missing from her closet and that she was believed to be wearing when she went missing. Investigators said they were not made aware of this detail until after Fontenot confessed in October 1984 and confirmed it with the family afterward.

Oklahoma is still trying to use a recanted confession to retry 'Innocent Man' case

The confession is one of the few remaining pieces of evidence tying Karl Fonenot to the killing of an Ada convenience store clerk in 1984.

www.readfrontier.org

 

[Berrybell]

However, the confessions were admitted as evidence in their retrials, and prosecutors hammered home one detail in the confessions they said anchored the men to the murder — a white blouse with blue floral print that Haraway’s family had discovered was missing from her closet and that she was believed to be wearing when she went missing. Investigators said they were not made aware of this detail until after Fontenot confessed in October 1984 and confirmed it with the family afterward.

Oklahoma is still trying to use a recanted confession to retry 'Innocent Man' case

The confession is one of the few remaining pieces of evidence tying Karl Fonenot to the killing of an Ada convenience store clerk in 1984.

www.readfrontier.org

It is my understanding the shirt found with her remains did not match the description given in the confession.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

It is my understanding the shirt found with her remains did not match the description given in the confession.

https://wwws.law.northwestern.edu/legalclinic/wrongfulconvictions/documents/innocentmanweb.pdf

The only detail in Ward’s confession that was not later disproven was his description of a blouse she was wearing when she disappeared, and though Ward later said he was given a choice of two blouses by the officers prior to making his confession, law enforcement said it was the first time they had heard such a description.

However, this was also not true, the evidence in the case shows.

The newly-uncovered documents showed that, prior to police questioning of Ward, officers were given a description of the blouse Haraway was believed to have worn prior to the questioning of Ward.

“The process of suppressing favorable evidence to Ward is fundamentally unfair and has deprived him of his right to a fair trial,” Inge wrote. “He has been denied due process as guaranteed by the federal and state constitutions.”

Furthermore, Inge’s order states that “due to the passage of time, the Court is of the opinion Ward will not be able to receive a fair trial.”

Judge orders second man in Ada's 'Innocent Man' case freed, state to appeal

Ward’s co-defendant in the case, Karl Fontenot, had his conviction and sentence overturned and was ordered released by a federal judge in Muskogee late last year. The Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office appealed that decision to the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, which is considering...

www.readfrontier.org

* its all a little confusing to me, I'll have to come back to this, I've spent some vacation in Ada and the country is very nice.

 

[Berrybell]

Judge orders release from prison or new trial for 'Innocent Man' defendant Karl Fontenot

Convicted in 1985 of the murder of Donna "Denice" Haraway, Karl Fontenot now must either be granted a new trial or be released from prison permanently, a judge said Wednesday.

www.readfrontier.org

This is a link that mentions the different blouses described by Ward and what was found with her remains.