The attorney of a former Ringling High School football coach and principal spoke publicly on Tuesday after prosecutors in Jefferson County dismissed Phillip Koons' criminal case. A group of Ringling high school student-athletes accused Koons of physical and verbal abuse.

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Oklahoma City-based attorney Shelby Shelton, representing Koons, said, "This has been a long, hard fight", and the long-time educator's career has been tarnished with false allegations.

Allegations of abuse coming out of Ringling High School three years ago, where Koons was a football coach and principal.

"A student got suspended for threatening with a gun on Instagram," said Shelton. "He got suspended for thos

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