tell me how that compares to other places and why that law, the change in missouri law was so important to getting mr. strickland released. before this law passed, and it just passed in missouri august 28th of this year, before that passed, a local prosecutor, like myself, who had been in office for a while, i have a good idea of how to evaluate a homicide case. that s what i do for a living. but i had no ability to correct an old homicide case out of my own office. a county of conviction. so i was powerless before august 28th of this year. so now we have this law that allowed me to bring the claim, and then prove it before a judge. you did that. the governor did not has not pardoned mr. strickland. in fact, the attorney general challenged you in court. it seems weird. why is that happening? what s behind that?
in there. more than i am. thank you very much. have a great holiday, man. you have a good one, my friend. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. rachel has the night off. she ll be back on monday. the law stated that was georgia s citizen s arrest law. it enabled any ordinary citizen to capture any other ordinary citizen if they claimed a person committed a crime. it was made the law of the state in 1863. it s no coincidence that that law was put into place that year, 1863 was codified, the law was codified just after president lincoln signed the emancipation proclamation and enslaved people in georgia started fleeing their captors.
killed him in cold blood. those three men have been on trial for more than two weeks on charges of felony murder, aggravated assault and false imprisonment. they claimed they had the right to chase and detain ahmaud arbery because of that law, and claimed that mr. arbery was shot in an act of self-defense. the prosecutors argued their actions didn t meet the standards of that law, and the defendants attacked ahmaud arbery because he was a black man running down the street. today, after ten hours of deliberation, the jury reached a verdict. they found all three men guilty of felony murder and false imprisonment. they found travis mcmichael guilty of all nine counts in the indictment. this was the scene outside the courtroom after a judge read the verdict. cheers and chants of whose streets? our streets. the people unite willed never be defeated. and say his name, ahmaud arbery. ahmaud arbery s parents walked out, hands raised with their
the kansas city star this morning. kevin strickland, a man wrongfully imprisoned by the state of missouri for 42 years and 4 months, finally freed. but a subhead to the story is what is questioning. exonerated man won t get a dime from the state. the story goes on to stay that unlike guilty prisoners, a parole officer will not help strickland find counseling, housing or work. and unlike others, he will not be eligible for social services, such as participating in the state s health care program. and maybe most importantly, missouri almost never c compensates wrongfully imprisoned people for time served. on the federal level, they are given $50,000 for every year they were wrongfully imprisoned. missouri s neighbor, kansas, just passed a law in 2018, making the wrongfully convicted eligible for $65,000 for each
we talked about this go fund me page that s been set up. it s up to $550,000 right now. which is great. it s fantastic that people are chipping in and they have heard his story and they believe that. but what do you think should happen in cases like this where someone is wrongfully convicted? it may be surprising to some that this statute that gave me power on august 28th of this year, but there are no funds to go along with it. mr. strickland s 43 years of being falsely held for a crime he didn t commit, he doesn t receive a single red cent from. now, that could be rectified, also by that same legislation that passed this law. they could follow up with changing this, so not just that small portion of those people through dna could receive a small amount of money.