While one criminal case stemming from a civil lawsuit filed in July 2021 is ongoing, another came to an end Wednesday.

Micah Nall pleaded no contest to a felony charge of child abuse before District Judge Paul Woodward at the Kingfisher County District Courthouse.

Woodward handed down a four-year deferred sentence and a $5,000 fine.

He will have supervised probation with the Department of Corrections.

If Nall does not violate parole in those five years, his record will be expunged of any felony.

If he does violate the terms of the agreement, said Woodward, Nall will have to serve at least 85 percent of the sentence.

“Good luck,” said Woodward to Nall near the end of the hearing. “I want to dismiss this in five years. OK?”

Nall was charged with child abuse as well as a felony count of perjury on Oct. 17, 2023.

The perjury charge was dismissed with cause as part of Wednesday’s plea agreement.

The charges were filed by then-District Attorney Mike Fields and came after an investigation by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation which was prompted by allegations in a civil lawsuit brought against Kingfisher Public Schools, then-head football coach Jeff Myers, Nall, who had already left the school district, and two other coaches.

The district settled that civil lawsuit with Mason Mecklenburg late last year.

Myers was charged with a felony count of child neglect the same day Nall was charged. Myers’ case is still pending. (Note: See related story.)

Nall was hired at KPS in 2013. He resigned as a football assistant prior to the 2020 season after a district investigation into Nall’s role in an alleged hazing incident at a football practice called “bull in the ring.” Nall was charged in December 2020 with a misdemeanor count of obstructing an officer during the investigation of that incident.

He remained a teacher with the district for 202021, but resigned prior to the next school year.

Nall earlier this year voluntarily surrendered his teaching certificate with the state of Oklahoma.