Calls intensify to overturn Kevin Stricklandâs wrongful conviction
Strickland has served 43 years for 1978 murders
The attorneys for Kevin Strickland and representatives from the Midwest Innocence Project joined Jackson County Prosecuting Attorney Jean Peters Baker to call for his release Monday afternoon in Kansas City, Missouri.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. â Jackson County Prosecuting Attorney Jean Peters Baker joined the attorneys for Kevin Strickland and representatives from the Midwest Innocence Project on Monday in calling for his triple-murder conviction to be overturned and for Strickland to be released from state prison. Today, my job is to apologize, Peters Baker said during a news conference Monday afternoon. It is important to recognize when the system has made wrongs. And what we did in this case was wrong. So to Mr. Strickland, I am profoundly sorry. I am profoundly sorry for the harm that has come to you.
Kansas City strikes jaywalking law amid push to address racial disparities in policing Bill Lukitsch, The Kansas City Star
May 6 Kansas City s elected officials have eliminated jaywalking and two other minor offenses amid a push to reform city laws that are disproportionately applied to people of color.
Sponsoring the legislation was Mayor Quinton Lucas, who has pointed to the changes as part of an effort to decriminalize aspects of daily existence for Kansas Citians and eliminating our enforcement disparities by race at their foundations. It cleared the City Council Thursday by a vote of 10-0.
The legislation strikes jaywalking from the city s code of ordinances altogether. It also removes penalties for operating passenger vehicles, bicycles and electric micromobility devices like the city s rentable scooters with dirty tires. And, it removes language that allows bicycles to be inspected by law enforcement in situations where reasonable cause leads p
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FILE - This undated file photo released by the Iowa Department of Corrections shows Gentric Hicks, an inmate at the Anamosa State Penitentiary in Anamosa, Iowa. Lawyers for Hicks, 74, maintain that he was wrongly convicted of first-degree murder in a 1976 slaying, but recent DNA testing on an orange hunting cap that the killer left at the crime scene was inconclusive and failed to exonerate Hicks.
IOWA CITY Testing on a cap worn by the perpetrator of a homicide 45 years ago has failed to exonerate a prisoner who maintains his innocence, the latest setback for lawyers hoping to prove Iowa’s first wrongful conviction based on DNA.
May 5 A proposal that would eliminate penalties for jaywalking and other pedestrian offenses cleared an initial hurdle as Kansas City leaders explore changes aimed at reforming laws that disproportionately harm people of color. Members of the city's Transportation, Infrastructure and Operations Committee recommended removing jaywalking offenses from traffic codes during a meeting Wednesday. It .
DNA testing fails to exonerate Iowa prisoner in 1976 slaying
RYAN J. FOLEY, Associated Press
May 4, 2021
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FILE - This undated file photo released by the Iowa Department of Corrections shows Gentric Hicks, an inmate at the Anamosa State Penitentiary in Anamosa, Iowa. Lawyers for Hicks, 74, maintain that he was wrongly convicted of first-degree murder in a 1976 slaying, but recent DNA testing on an orange hunting cap that the killer left at the crime scene was inconclusive and failed to exonerate Hicks. (Iowa Department of Corrections via AP File)AP
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) Testing on a cap worn by the perpetrator of a homicide 45 years ago has failed to exonerate a prisoner who maintains his innocence, the latest setback for lawyers hoping to prove Iowa’s first wrongful conviction based on DNA.