Kansas bill regulating jailhouse witness testimony unlikely to become law this year
Kansas bill regulating jailhouse witness testimony unlikely to become law this year Bill regulating jailhouse witnesses in KS unlikely to pass and last updated 2021-04-16 23:53:54-04 KANSAS CITY, Mo. â When Olin âPeteâ Coones went to prison for a murder he did not commit in Kansas City, Kansas, a jailhouse informant was the damning witness. No physical evidence tied Coones, whose story was featured Friday on " Dateline," to the crime. The father of five even had an alibi, but Wyandotte County prosecutors relied on a jailhouse witness, who had been convicted of âcrimes of...