Mary Sanchez: Two Missouri inmates, two tales of justice delayed
Once an innocent person is entangled in the criminal justice system, it’ s damningly difficult to wrench them free. My city, Kansas City, is in the glaring media spotlight currently because of such a case. Kevin Strickland, 62 has served time for three 1978 murders that a widening swath of legal experts believe he did not commit.
Once an innocent person is entangled in the criminal justice system, it’s damningly difficult to wrench them free.
The public is only vaguely aware of this. After all, that’s the point. Someone sentenced to prison is out of the public eye. Out of sight, out of mind.
Yes, in recent years there have been highly publicized cases where inmates are exonerated, found to be completely innocent of a crime that they’ve been serving prison time for. Those cases take years of painstaking legal work. Years as in decades, as a
