After spending 43 years behind bars for a crime he said he didn't commit, a Missouri man's conviction has been set aside, according to a news release from Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker.
All criminal counts against Strickland were dismissed. His release makes his confinement the longest wrongful imprisonment in Missouri history and one of the longest in the nation, according to The National Registry of Exonerations.Strickland said he found out the news of his release through a breaking news report that interrupted the soap opera he was watching.
Four people were shot in Kansas City, Missouri, on April 25, 1978, resulting in three deaths, according to CNN affiliate KSHB. The only survivor of the crime, Cynthia Douglas, who died in 2015, testified in 1978 Strickland was at the scene of the triple murder. The two assailants Douglas identified at the scene both pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and each ended up serving about 10 years in prison for the crimes, according to Strickland's attorney, Robert Hoffman.
Really, does it matter who committed them, as long as justice is served?
Lawyer fucked me
Wow unreal
So sad
What do you say when your life has been taken from you?
All prisoners say they're innocent
wow! it never ENDS! Another one down and another 200,000 to go! 😬
But really? NO compensation?
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