Gov. Parson unsure if Kevin Strickland is innocent. Here s why prosecutors say he is Luke Nozicka, The Kansas City Star
Jun. 24 Missouri Gov. Mike Parson this week said he was not convinced Kevin Strickland is innocent, even though prosecutors say the Kansas City man was wrongly convicted as a teenager four decades ago.
A former sheriff, Parson told 41 Action News he did not know if Strickland, 62, is innocent or not in a 1978 triple murder in Kansas City that the Jackson County Prosecutor s Office now says he did not commit.
Kelli Jones, Parson s spokeswoman, said the governor and his team have and will continue to review Strickland s case. However, she said, Parson believes we must give great deference to the judicial process and a jury s finding of guilt.
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(NEW YORK) Kevin Strickland spent his 62nd birthday behind bars. It’s the 43rd time he has spent a birthday in prison and says he desperately hopes it will be his last.
“I was determined to spend this birthday as awake as I could,” he told ABC News in an exclusive interview. “You never know if it’s going to be your last one.”
“I think I’ve been destroyed,” Strickland went on to say. “I ve been placed in an environment where I had to adapt to living with all sorts of confessed criminals. The way I see things now is not normal, I would think, for somebody in society.”