In the video, he talks about the cases of
Lamar Johnson, Missouri men with decades-long prison sentences for crimes local prosecutors say they did not commit.
“Alright everybody, pay attention. I’m gonna break this down in bullet points so everybody can understand,” Shey says in the video.
Shey lives in California and scours the internet for news stories and publishes them in his TikTok series called “Shit’s Getting Weird”. A previous video on Kevin Strickland’s case also got a lot of views, though he says it didn’t get as much attention as this one.
“I m still surprised at how many people don t know about it,” Shey said in an interview.
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Missouri Supreme Court denies Kevin Strickland s exoneration request
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Jackson County prosecutor Jean Peters Baker speaks on Monday, May 10, 2021, about the wrongful conviction of Kevin Strickland, who has been incarcerated for more than 40 years.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. â The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear Kevin Strickland s attempt to exonerate himself.
Strickland has been in prison for the last 43 years for a shooting that left three people dead and one other hurt on Aug. 25, 1978.
In May, Jackson County Prosecuting Attorney Jean Peters Baker, Strickland s attorney and the Midwest Innocence Project
At the time, they cited new evidence that has since emerged in his wrongful conviction.