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| Born | July 28, 1932 |
| Hometown | Brooklyn, New York (state), United States |
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One-legged San Francisco inmate awarded $500,000 after being forced to hop to cell
- Vincent Bell, who has one leg, was awaiting trial in connection with a 2012 murder when he was forced to hop to a cell.
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- U.S.Kansas City Star
Eyewitness’s identification of Strickland was ‘extremely unreliable,’ expert says
If Kevin Strickland had been one of the gunmen, the eyewitness who knew him should have been able to identify him that night in 1978, a memory expert testified.
- U.S.Kansas City Star
Former prosecutors told key Kevin Strickland witness it was ‘too late’ to recant, sister says
In testimony on Tuesday, Cecile Simmons said her sister had nightmares and was sickened by what she believed was her wrongful identification that sent Kevin Strickland to prison for most of his life.
- U.S.Kansas City Star
‘The wrong guy’: Eyewitness’ relatives say she recanted her ID of Kevin Strickland
“She said, ‘Mother, I picked the wrong guy,” the mom of the lone eyewitness in Kevin Strickland’s case testified Monday. “She was very disturbed about it.”
- U.S.Kansas City Star
Kevin Strickland testifies, swears he had ‘nothing to do with’ 1978 triple murder
“I had absolutely nothing to do with these murders,” Kevin Strickland said at the first day of his evidentiary hearing. “By no means.”
- U.S.Kansas City Star
Who is Kevin Strickland and why is he still in Missouri prison after innocence claims?
Why hasn’t Kevin Strickland been freed? Here, we answer frequently asked questions about Strickland, who prosecutors say is innocent in decades-old murders.
- U.S.Oxygen
Despite Major Opposition, Missouri Attorney General Says Kevin Strickland Is Guilty Of 1979 Triple Murder
The Missouri Attorney General’s Office on Monday said it believes longtime inmate Kevin Strickland is guilty of killing three people in Kansas City and should remain in prison, despite several other prosecutors saying they believe he is innocent. Assistant Attorney General Andrew Clarke argued in a motion filed Monday that Strickland, 62, was given a fair trial in 1979 and has “worked to evade responsibility” for the Kansas City killings since then, The Kansas City Star reported. Also Monday, Ci
- U.S.Kansas City Star
Kevin Strickland is guilty, Missouri AG says in rebuke of local prosecutor’s arguments
Kevin Strickland has “worked to evade responsibility” in the 1978 murders, the attorney general argued. Local prosecutors maintain he’s innocent.
- U.S.Kansas City Star
Gov. Parson unsure if Kevin Strickland is innocent. Here’s why prosecutors say he is
Kevin Strickland’s attorneys said they would be happy to sit down with Missouri Gov. Mike Parson and “go over the evidence.”
- U.S.Oxygen
Missouri Man Spends 4 Decades Behind Bars For Triple Homicide, But Now Prosecutors Are Pushing For His Exoneration
A Kansas City man has spent four decades behind bars for a triple homicide that prosecutors now believe he didn’t commit. “All those who have reviewed the evidence in recent months agree—Kevin Strickland deserves to be exonerated,” Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker said in a statement from the prosecutor’s office calling for Strickland’s release. “This is a profound error we must correct now.” Strickland’s attorneys with the Midwest Innocence Project and the firm Bryan Cave Leighton Pa
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This battle between US Marines and ISIS has largely been kept secret — until now
CAMP PENDLETON, California — Maj. David Palka had seen combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, but...
