Missouri Supreme Court denies Kevin Strickland s exoneration request
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Jackson County prosecutor Jean Peters Baker speaks on Monday, May 10, 2021, about the wrongful conviction of Kevin Strickland, who has been incarcerated for more than 40 years.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. â The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear Kevin Strickland s attempt to exonerate himself.
Strickland has been in prison for the last 43 years for a shooting that left three people dead and one other hurt on Aug. 25, 1978.
In May, Jackson County Prosecuting Attorney Jean Peters Baker, Strickland s attorney and the Midwest Innocence Project
At the time, they cited new evidence that has since emerged in his wrongful conviction.
MIdwest Innocence Project
Because of confusion over whether innocence is enough for a non-death penalty conviction to be overturned in Missouri, Kevin Strickland remains incarcerated at a prison in DeKalb County.
Despite being declared innocent by the prosecutor s office that convicted him, Kevin Strickland is still doing time for a triple-murder from decades ago that he was not involved in.
It’s been nearly a month since the Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office found that evidence used to prosecute and imprison Kevin Strickland for more than 40 years was flawed, and
“My job is to protect the innocent,” the county’s top prosecutor, Jean Peters Baker, said when she presented the findings at a press conference. “It is important to recognize when the system has made wrongs, and what we did in this case was wrong.”
After prosecutors determined he was innocent in the 1978 triple murder for which he has been imprisoned for more than two-thirds of his life, Kevin Strickland
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Following a lengthy review of his case, the Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office has determined that Kevin Strickland is innocent in the 1978 killings. Jean Peters Baker, a Jackson prosecutor, released a statement on Monday, May 10, stating, “All those who have reviewed the evidence in recent months agree Kevin Strickland deserves to be exonerated.” He added, “This is a profound error we must correct now.”