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Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)
Sat Nov 27, 2021, 09:17 AM Nov 2021

Missouri attorney general accused of malpractice for fighting Kevin Strickland's release

After 43 years behind bars for a crime he didn’t commit, Kevin Strickland was finally exonerated on Tuesday. But his hard-fought freedom came despite months of objections and delays from Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt.

Schmitt's handling of the case amounted to "prosecutorial malpractice," Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker said on Wednesday.

“I'm hot about that because it's a misunderstanding of the very basics — prosecutor 101,” Baker told KCUR’s Up To Date.

Judge James Welsh exonerated and ordered Strickland, 62, released from the Western Missouri Correctional Center on Tuesday.

https://news.stlpublicradio.org/government-politics-issues/2021-11-26/missouri-attorney-general-accused-of-malpractice-for-fighting-kevin-stricklands-release

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Missouri attorney general accused of malpractice for fighting Kevin Strickland's release (Original Post) Sherman A1 Nov 2021 OP
Worth while to file a grievance, I would think. Tomconroy Nov 2021 #1
Several Law Schools... discntnt_irny_srcsm Nov 2021 #2

discntnt_irny_srcsm

(18,470 posts)
2. Several Law Schools...
Sat Nov 27, 2021, 12:23 PM
Nov 2021

...incorporate the Latin word, Veritas. The translation of this linguistic foundation is "truth". Judicial officers, lawyers, criminal and civil procedure, laws and especially all aspects of prosecution must discover and preserve truth. Anything less is betrayal.

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