By Jaclyn Cosgrove jcosgrove@opubco.com
An Oklahoma man convicted of first-degree murder almost 30 years ago is innocent and should be freed, the head of the Oklahoma Innocence Project said Wednesday.
Karl A. Fontenot, 48, is serving a life sentence without parole for the 1984 killing of Donna Haraway.
Wednesday, the Oklahoma Innocence Project at the Oklahoma City University School of Law filed an application and brief in Pontotoc County in support of post-conviction relief on behalf of Fontenot.
Tiffany Murphy, the project's director, said the organization believes that the evidence its students and staff members discovered during its investigation into Fontenot's case proves he was not involved.
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