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After months of courtroom delays, a judge will hear evidence this week in the innocence petition of a Kansas City man who has spent 43 years in prison for a crime prosecutors now say he didn't commit.
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Linda Dickerson-Bell said she believes Michael Politte, who has been imprisoned in Missouri for nearly 23 years, is innocent of the murder of his mother, Rita Politte.
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Michael Politte is serving a life sentence after a jury found he murdered his mother, Rita Politte, as a 14-year-old in Washington County, Missouri.
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Kevin Strickland has spent more than 43 years in prison for a crime prosecutors now say he did not commit. Judges in the court that convicted him have now been recused, and a new judge appointed.
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Capt. Everett Babcock thinks the new eyewitness identification policy will help prevent wrongful convictions.
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Judge Kevin Harrell decided not to recuse himself or Jackson County's 16th District Circuit Court from the case — a ruling that could be appealed by the state attorney general.
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The Missouri Attorney General has raised questions about the appearance of bias within the 16th District Circuit Court and asked the judge to recuse himself and the jurisdiction. A date for Kevin Strickland's innocence hearing has still not been set.
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Instead of setting a date to begin hearing evidence, a judge and attorneys will meet Sept. 13, to decide if Strickland's case will be heard in a Jackson County Court.
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An innocence hearing for Kevin Strickland was set for Thursday in the court that handed down his guilty verdict 43 years ago. Instead, a judge will meet with attorneys to determine a new schedule.
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Like face masks and Medicaid expansion, the future of Kevin Strickland seems to have entered the state's political arena.
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A TikTok post about Kevin Strickland and Lamar Johnson reached nearly 1 million people with their claims of unjust incarceration and their pleas for pardons or overturned convictions.
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Strickland has been behind bars since 1979. A judge in DeKalb County could choose to release him at the end of a two-day hearing set for August.