Prosecutors called for the release of a US man who has spent more than 40 years in prison for a triple murder that the prosecutors concluded he didn t commit, a letter released Monday showed.
The release of the letter, indicating overwhelming support for the release of Kevin Strickland, 62, came after his attorneys filed a petition urging the Missouri Supreme Court to free him immediately, The Kansas City Star reports. In the letter, Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker and her chief deputy, Dan Nelson, said the evidence used to convict Strickland as a teenager has since been âeviscerated.â
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Kevin Strickland is now 61 years old.(Midwest Innocence Project)
Kansas City man is innocent in 1978 murders and should be released, prosecutors say Luke Nozicka, The Kansas City Star
May 10 A Kansas City man has languished in prison for more than 40 years for a triple murder he did not commit, Jackson County s top prosecutors have determined. They are now calling for his release.
Kevin Strickland, 61, is innocent in the 1978 killings for which he has been imprisoned for more than two-thirds of his life, the Jackson County Prosecutor s Office has concluded following a monthslong review of his case.
The prosecutor s office is not alone in calling for Strickland s release. Federal prosecutors in the Western District of Missouri, as well as Jackson County s presiding judge, Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas and members of the team that convicted Strickland four decades ago now all agree he deserves to be exonerated.
By The Associated Press, AP
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Prosecutors called for the release of a Missouri man who has spent more than 40 years in prison for a triple murder that the prosecutors concluded he didn t commit, a letter released Monday showed.
The release of the letter, indicating overwhelming support for the release of Kevin Strickland, 62, came after his attorneys filed a petition urging the Missouri Supreme Court to free him immediately, The Kansas City Star reports. In the letter, Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker and her chief deputy, Dan Nelson, said the evidence used to convict Strickland as a teenager has since been “eviscerated.”
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas says a Missouri law that prevents cities from enacting their own gun control measures hamstrings his efforts to address the city's shootings and killings.
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The idea of preemption is that it prevents there from being an unnavigable patchwork of gun control laws in a given state. After all, people move between towns pretty regularly. The last thing you need is someone who thinks they’re complying with the law only to find out they’re in the wrong city for that particular action.
However, anti-gunners
hate preemption. They want local communities to be able to do just that.
One of those anti-gunners is apparently the mayor of Kansas City, and he is decrying preemption.
On Friday, Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas noted that for six years Missouri cities have been prevented from enacting their own gun control measures, something he said hamstrings him in addressing the shootings and killings that plague the city.