Karl Fontenot, the subject of Netflix’s true-crime doc series The Innocent Man, has been released from prison after serving 35 years for a crime that he did not commit. In an exclusive interview wi…
In an exclusive interview with Deadline, Ross Dinerstein, founder of production company
The first two men, Ron Williamson and Dennis Fritz were released after 11 years in prison with Williamson released five days before he was due to be executed. It took longer for Fontenot and Ward.Ross Dinerstein: I read the book in December 2007 on honeymoon in Costa Rica. I was at the airport and I love John Grisham books and I picked up his latest one but it doesn’t say non-fiction on the cover.
Netflix really put a spotlight on these cases and I think it really did accelerate everything with Karl and Tommy. Tommy’s case is a lot slower because his case is in the state court rather than the federal court. Karl had essentially run out of options with the state and then it gets kicked up to the federal court. Getting to the federal court was the best thing that happened.
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