Donations pour in to help man wrongfully convicted in 1979

[Sherman A1]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Donations are pouring in to help a man who was freed from a Missouri prison after a judge found that he was wrongfully convicted in 1979 in a triple killing.

The GoFundMe fundraiser to benefit Kevin Strickland had surpassed its $430,000 goal by Wednesday afternoon, and donations kept coming.

Many of the donors expressed outrage that the 62-year-old wouldn’t receive compensation from Missouri. The state only allows wrongful imprisonment payments to people exonerated through DNA evidence, so Strickland doesn’t qualify.

Strickland has always maintained that he was home watching television and had nothing to do with the killings, which happened when he was 18 years old.

https://krcgtv.com/news/local/donations-pour-in-to-help-man-wrongfully-convicted-in-1979

[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. Maybe the Missouri legislature could consider passing some legislation that corrects

this obvious flaw. The could reconvene, or maybe take it up in the current of next session. Seems important.

[tulipsandroses]

2. I watched an interview with him and it was heartbreaking

The interviewer asked him where he would go, he said he didn’t know. He doesn’t have a place to go to. He said maybe I’ll get a cardboard box and sleep under the bridge. I don’t know what kind of health problems he has but he was sitting in a wheelchair, he said, this chair doesn’t belong to me, they will take it when I leave, I may have to crawl out of here.
He needs to be compensated. The state shouldn’t be able to say, oh my bad, we wrongly locked you up for 42 years. Don’t know how you’ll survive now, but hey

[Cracklin Charlie]

3. I can't wait...

For the asshole Missouri governor who first tried to ignore Mr. Strickland’s wrongful conviction, and then tried to fight his release, to run for re-election by saying that he got Strickland released.