Ex-OU player wins battle to clear name
"People assume things because of my past and I've been in trouble before. I knew I was right on this one. I knew I had to stand up.”

 
By Bryan Dean
Published: February 19, 2008

Former University of Oklahoma quarterback Charles Thompson has tried to atone for the crimes of his past, but he had no intention of giving in when he believed he was wrongly convicted of public intoxication.

Thompson, who was arrested at the height of his college football career at OU for dealing cocaine, recently won the battle to clear his name in a public intoxication case when the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Ap...


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