Karl Fontenot ordered retried or released within 120 days
- File | The Ada News

At left, Karl Fontenot is shown in handcuffs outside the Pontotoc County Courthouse in this 1986 file photo from The Ada News archives. At right, Fontenot's 2013 ODOC file photo.
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U.S. District Judge James Payne has given the state of Oklahoma 120 days to either grant Karl Fontenot a new trial or order his permanent release from prison.
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