AProudLefty (11-26-2021), christiefan915 (11-24-2021), Doc Dutch (11-28-2021), signalmankenneth (11-24-2021)
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/crime...ion/ar-AAR5mBY
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AProudLefty (11-26-2021), christiefan915 (11-24-2021), Doc Dutch (11-28-2021), signalmankenneth (11-24-2021)
Another travesty of justice. 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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christiefan915 (11-28-2021), Guno צְבִי (11-24-2021)
“If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.”
— Golda Meir
Zionism is the movement for the self-determination and statehood for the Jewish people in their ancestral homeland, the land of Israel.
ברוך השם
christiefan915 (11-24-2021), signalmankenneth (11-24-2021)
AProudLefty (11-26-2021), Guno צְבִי (11-24-2021), signalmankenneth (11-24-2021)
AProudLefty (11-26-2021), christiefan915 (11-28-2021), Guno צְבִי (11-24-2021)
If there is an upside to this is, GoFund has raised $1,100,000 so far and counting?!! All funds go directly to Mr. Strickland?!! No amount of money will make-up for 43 years behind bars either?!! If you would like to donate, here is the link address. I hope Mr. Strickland can enjoy the remaining years of his life too?!!
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-kevi...ful-conviction
AProudLefty (11-26-2021), christiefan915 (11-26-2021), Matt Dillon (11-28-2021), Rune (11-29-2021)
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