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Rashaud Q. Lewis
- Rashaud Q. Lewis, 25, was convicted of second-degree felony murder, first-degree kidnapping and two counts of armed criminal action in the May 2021 killing of Gilberto Gutierrez.
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Nov 24, 2021 · 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 testimony from...
A Missouri judge has ruled that a Kansas City man was wrongfully convicted for three murders and will be released after more than 40 years behind bars. Sixty-two-year-old Kevin Strickland was exonerated on Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2021.
Nov 24, 2021 · Kevin Strickland, a 62-year-old Black man, was found guilty of a triple homicide in 1979 and was sentenced to life in prison by an all white jury. Judge James Welsh ordered Strickland's...
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- New Law Playing Pivotal Role
Attorneys for Strickland and the Attorney General's office indicated during opening statements that statements from Cynthia Douglas, the only survivor of the shootings, identifying Strickland as the shooter would be central to determining Strickland's fate. Strickland's supporters said Douglas recanted her identification before she died. Andrew Cla...
Strickland, 62, was convicted in the April 25, 1978, fatal shootings of Larry Ingram, 21; John Walker, 20; and Sherrie Black, 22, in Kansas City. Strickland, a Black man, saw his first trial end in a hung jury when the only Black juror, a woman, held out for acquittal. After his second trial in 1979, he was convicted by an all-white jury of one cou...
During afternoon testimony, Douglas' daughter, mother, sister and a former co-worker all testified that she had told them she identified the wrong shooter and wanted to help exonerate Strickland. Senoria Strickland said her daughter told her police pressured her to identify Strickland and she was was upset and depressed that she had chosen "the wro...
Hearings were scheduled in August in DeKalb County, where Strickland is imprisoned. Those hearings were canceled after Peters Baker used a new state law to seek an evidentiary hearing i n Jackson County, where Strickland was convicted. The law allows local prosecutors to challenge convictions if they believe the defendant did not commit the crime. ...
May 11, 2021 · Kevin Strickland, 61, was acquitted in his first 1979 trial, but a jury convicted him of capital murder and two counts of second-degree murder two months later, the Kansas City Star reported.
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Sep 15, 2023 · Rashaud Q. Lewis, 25, was convicted of second-degree felony murder, first-degree kidnapping and two counts of armed criminal action in the May 2021 killing of Gilberto Gutierrez.
Nov 23, 2021 · Missouri prosecutors argued Kevin Strickland was innocent in 1978 Kansas City murders and was wrongfully convicted. A judge has since freed him from prison.
