Prosecutors: Missouri man wrongly convicted of triple murder
by The Associated Press
Last Updated May 10, 2021 at 6:37 pm EDT
KANSAS CITY, Mo. 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.”
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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)
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.”
The law is designed to balance a defendant’s right to a fair trial with the public’s right to know the facts of a case, said Platte County Prosecutor Eric Zahnd, who was on a committee that wrote camera guidelines for Kansas City police.
“Those are both very important foundational principles of American government,” Zahnd said. “Sometimes they conflict with each other and we have to ask a judge to balance those two interests and make the decision.”
Police body and dashboard camera videos have become a flashpoint across the country, particularly in cases where officers shoot or have a violent confrontation with a person of color.