Exonerated after 43 Years in Prison Following Wrongful Conviction

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Guno צְבִי

We fight, We win, Am Yisrael Chai
After serving 43 years at the Western Missouri Correctional Center, the 62-year-old man was released and dismissed of all charges by the Jackson County Prosecutor's Office.

"To say we're extremely pleased and grateful is an understatement," Baker said in the release. "This brings justice -- finally -- to a man who has tragically suffered so so greatly as a result of this wrongful conviction."

Strickland was 18 in 1978 when Cynthia Douglas, the sole surviving witness of an attack in a Kansas City home that killed three others — Sherrie Black, John Walker, and Larry Ingram — identified him as a participant in the shooting.

Immediately after the shooting, Douglas named two other men, Vincent Bell and Kilm Adkins, who both pleaded guilty.

But that night, despite knowing Strickland personally, Douglas could not identify a third man holding a shotgun — and didn't change her mind until the next day, when her sister's boyfriend suggested it might have been Strickland, according to a letter written by Baker to advocates with the Midwest Innocence Project.

"Just pick Strickland out of the lineup and we'll be done, it will all go away, you can go on and you don't have to worry about these guys no more," Douglas said she was told, in a recollection shared with members of Strickland's legal team, reports KCTV.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crim...ison-following-wrongful-conviction/ar-AAR5mBY
 
Another travesty of justice. :mad: The poor guy has spent most of his life so far being incarcerated, then the system cuts him loose without a cent.

And people deny it when we say there's a separate justice system for blacks v. whites.
 
christiefan915 said:
Another travesty of justice. :mad: The poor guy has spent most of his life so far being incarcerated, then the system cuts him loose without a cent.

And people deny it when we say there's a separate justice system for blacks v. whites.
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Do you think it would be different if it were a Caucasian? Make sure you and Guno contribute to his go fund me page. Or just pipe down frauds.
 
Sailor said:
Do you think it would be different if it were a Caucasian? Make sure you and Guno contribute to his go fund me page. Or just pipe down frauds.
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I'm happy to contribute to people like Mr. Strickland, who was screwed twice by the justice system.
 
guno said:
After serving 43 years at the Western Missouri Correctional Center, the 62-year-old man was released and dismissed of all charges by the Jackson County Prosecutor's Office.

"To say we're extremely pleased and grateful is an understatement," Baker said in the release. "This brings justice -- finally -- to a man who has tragically suffered so so greatly as a result of this wrongful conviction."

Strickland was 18 in 1978 when Cynthia Douglas, the sole surviving witness of an attack in a Kansas City home that killed three others — Sherrie Black, John Walker, and Larry Ingram — identified him as a participant in the shooting.

Immediately after the shooting, Douglas named two other men, Vincent Bell and Kilm Adkins, who both pleaded guilty.

But that night, despite knowing Strickland personally, Douglas could not identify a third man holding a shotgun — and didn't change her mind until the next day, when her sister's boyfriend suggested it might have been Strickland, according to a letter written by Baker to advocates with the Midwest Innocence Project.

"Just pick Strickland out of the lineup and we'll be done, it will all go away, you can go on and you don't have to worry about these guys no more," Douglas said she was told, in a recollection shared with members of Strickland's legal team, reports KCTV.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crim...ison-following-wrongful-conviction/ar-AAR5mBY
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Besides being wrongly convicted, the state of Missouri does not compensate the wrongly convicted either?!! Even the backward state of Texas gives the wrongly convicted $80,000 for each year served?!!
This really is a travesty of justice too?!!
 
guno said:
After serving 43 years at the Western Missouri Correctional Center, the 62-year-old man was released and dismissed of all charges by the Jackson County Prosecutor's Office.

"To say we're extremely pleased and grateful is an understatement," Baker said in the release. "This brings justice -- finally -- to a man who has tragically suffered so so greatly as a result of this wrongful conviction."

Strickland was 18 in 1978 when Cynthia Douglas, the sole surviving witness of an attack in a Kansas City home that killed three others — Sherrie Black, John Walker, and Larry Ingram — identified him as a participant in the shooting.

Immediately after the shooting, Douglas named two other men, Vincent Bell and Kilm Adkins, who both pleaded guilty.

But that night, despite knowing Strickland personally, Douglas could not identify a third man holding a shotgun — and didn't change her mind until the next day, when her sister's boyfriend suggested it might have been Strickland, according to a letter written by Baker to advocates with the Midwest Innocence Project.

"Just pick Strickland out of the lineup and we'll be done, it will all go away, you can go on and you don't have to worry about these guys no more," Douglas said she was told, in a recollection shared with members of Strickland's legal team, reports KCTV.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crim...ison-following-wrongful-conviction/ar-AAR5mBY
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This could never have happened if it weren't for the prosecutor in his case working relentlessly to get him exonerated. He would be deader than a door nail right now if she hadn't!
 
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