On friday, an oklahoma district judge vacated and set aside thomas ward's (pictured) convictions and sentences, and ordered him discharged from the custody of the. The oklahoma court of criminal appeals on friday reinstated tommy ward's murder conviction in an infamous 1984 case out of ada. The victim, donna denice haraway,. Mark barrett and greg swygert, the attorneys representing tommy ward, spoke with the frontier this week about the status of ward’s case to have his 1989 murder. 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.
Tommy ward and karl fontenot were convicted of the murder of donna denise haraway, who disappeared in the spring of 1984. Haraway’s disappearance and subsequent. Further highlighting the failures and abuses perpetrated by the police and district attorney's office during that time period, the innocent man includes accounts (as subplots) of the false. Currently, ward presides at the r. b. Dick conner correctional center in hominy, oklahoma. He is 58 years old. Tommy ward and karl fontenot. On friday, the attorney general's office filed its argument to the state court of criminal appeals to keep tommy ward in prison. Melvin ward said his brother tommy is still. The state court of criminal appeals voted unanimously to reinstate tommy ward’s murder conviction. Ward is the subject of a netflix docuseries and a book by john grisham. 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.
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Ward is the subject of a netflix docuseries and a book by john grisham. 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.