(AP) — A Kansas City man who has been jailed for more than 40 years for three murders was wrongfully convicted in 1979 and will be released, a Missouri judge ruled Tuesday. Strickland was convicted in the deaths of Larry Ingram, 21; John Walker, 20; and Sherrie Black, 22, at a home in Kansas City. The evidentiary hearing focused largely on previous testimony from Cynthia Douglas, the only person to survive the April 25, 1978, shootings. In August, Peters Baker used a new state law to seek the evidentiary hearing in Jackson County, where Strickland was convicted. It was the first time — and so far the only time — that a prosecutor has used the law to fight a previous conviction.

Source: Huffington Post November 24, 2021 09:12 UTC