Why are wrongly-convicted people still imprisoned in Missouri?
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- "48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty talks with two Missouri men, Kevin Strickland and Lamar Johnson, who have served a combined 70 years in prison for murders most people now believe they did not commit. And yet, even though prosecutors have called for their release, innocence may not be enough to earn them their freedom - both men are still behind bars. So, what's going on in the state of Missouri?
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Institutionalized racism in Missouri exists. Just ask every black man in Missouri.
Most seems to notice this the others are complicit in its action.
@Larry York such a lazy “argument” you sound so ignorant.
As someone from rural Missouri the dislike or even hatred of people considered "other" is really high.
@@Extinctanimals22 exactly I grew up in St Louis and had a public and private education in the suburbs. I’ve had South and East Asian friends. While their experiences aren’t exactly the same as the black experience in MO it is not dissimilar either.
@Larry York Your wt FRAGILITY is repulsive. People like you are addictive to playing the victim. Your culture is MALIGNANT NARCISSISM. Black people don't hate "wt people" We hate Racist Gaslighting fragility morons like you
This is so wrong. Before the United States criticized other countries, we need to clean up our own backyard. You lead by example!
Gee, ya think?
Amen friend. 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷
You know this happens in every country right? The U.S is usually the one being criticized by other countries who are doing worse. Yes the U.S can do way better but don't act like injustices only happens here.
@@Naturefan354 All due respect friend...were are not talking about other countries...This is America...we're supposed to be better than this. These men have suffered an unthinkable injustice. We (must) correct this immediately. Peace.
You are Wright. Hope they will start making sure that those people pay.
I’m going to keep sharing this story till someone hears it and takes action! This is RIDICULOUS!
Oh please do. Contact every news with no exception plus social media
Thank you friend! I agree...let's keep it going! This is one of (the most) unfair processes I've ever witnessed! #ShameOnTheStateOfMissouri 😠😔
They should both sue the state for false imprisonment.
One of several reasons why I would NEVER establish my business in Missouri!! This is beyond belief--the egos of evil men!!
They need to be voted out of office. Corruption in high places....
Eric Schmitt and Governor Parson shame on you both. LET THEM OUT.
Maybe they should trade places
I COULDN'T BE MORE SERIOUS
This is cruel and unusual punishment and goes against the Constitution.
does it now by your reading of the constitution not actual practiced in law what so ever
Not when your ancestors were meant to be property forever. They never wanted to include us
You think they care about the constitution?? Really. These people only care about power and money. They only care about feeling important! This is what evil looks like
This is so messed up, the state of Missouri needs to be sued.
Every single person involved in these prosecutions needs to spend the rest of their lives in prison. Absolutely disgusting and inhuman behavior.
Eric Schmitt should be incarcerated, along with Mike Parson. These two high ranking officials in Missouri refuse to let innocent men out of prison on some technicality. Kevin Strickland and Lamar Johnson should be released and compensated. The state of Missouri owes these men their lives back.
From your lips to God's ears friend! This is unreal. 😔🤷♀️
Kevin Strickland is coming home after 40 over long years. Old dude was released days ago.
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Lamar Johnson was released yesterday.
Thankyou to everyone who listened that he was innocent.
Marcus was his friend.
The one's who lied should be put in jail.
@@davinastanton3865 Johnson? WOW. It took over a year to make a follow up after Strickland.
This sends a shockwave to me. Schmitt and Parson should be ashamed of themselves for not creating the power of justice. If you are clean and innocent, then you should never be in jail.
Just shocking. Both prosecutor and defense attorney agree person is innocent and person has to stay locked up nonetheless.
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You're dealing with "human" devils. TO KNOW A PERSON IS INNOCENT and to still keep them locked up for something they didn't do is the epitome of EVIL.
@@deanjones2525 YEP! 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
And the actual killers in Kevin's case served 10yrs and went home
@@happydeedee1765 WELL SAD. DEVILS !
This is horrific! The Missouri powers-who-be need to get their acts, and perhaps their morality, together, do the RIGHT thing and pardon these men IMMEDIATELY! Laws exist to PROTECT the innocent and exceptions should be made when in cases where they do the OPPOSITE.
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The prison industrial 🏭 complex doesn’t care if these men are innocent-it’s about keeping the system going and those who run it employed😡😭
Sad but true.
You will only need one guess as to which political party is keeping these innocent men locked up.
Kamala did this as the AG in Commiefornia. So the Democrats!
Systemic bias and injustice are threaded so intricately and rooted so deeply in our legal, court, and punitive systems, completely independent of any partisan leanings.
This is just unbelievable, if you are innocent and everyone knows it you should not be in prison!
Exactly....They wouldn’t have even entered the system that is now preventing their release. WTF
What do expect from a backwards state like Missouri!
@@242HP That's the Jackson County prosecutor. It's Kansas City, Missouri, @azinine fool, not Ozark, Missouri. Johnson County in the KC metro is one of the wealthiest in the nation. The Kansas City metro area has over 2 million people, several colleges and universities, research hospitals, museums, symphonies, ballet, concerts, and major MLB and NFL teams in case you forgot the Superbowl over the past couple of years.
@@deer105 I couldn't care less about the Superbowl, and I'm not interested in any place that is known for its BBQ food, either. I was raised in and lived near some of the wealthiest suburban areas of NYC and CT, and I've never heard anyone of wealth and/or power, celebrity or not, talk about how they longed to move to Kansas City. The whole state sucks, IMO and is just a place you fly over to get someplace else.
Maybe their kids need to file a lawsuit against Missouri for the loss of their father's presence in their life! All the years missed... WRONGFULLY... is there even an amount that could make up for?
They just don’t want to pay restitution for their negligence.
And they readily should and budget for like any other “”the cost of quality”. The cost incurred to fix your mistake. Fortune 1800 million companies do it all the time. Helllloooooo
Mo. doesn't pay restitution. AG & Gov. are just hideous human beings.
Once again, it's obvious they simply want bodies in the prison system. Now putting someone in confinement when it isn't warranted, sounds like what?!
Unconstitutional for one, kidnapping, abuse of power, corruption...I'd lay my money on racism, too.
the prison system is a glutton of suffering, without the ability to recognize it's rot.
I can't commend and thank you enough for bringing this to light
Oh my God! These demons won’t do the right thing! Unbelievable!🤦🏽♀️
Something is terribly wrong in the Show me State.
Truth and justice are missing in this State.
They just showed me I don't want to ever visit. I've seen all I need to see!
The state of Missouri should be ashamed of itself and especially the State Attorney General. Talk about injustice.
They were just caught.
This is the craziest thing I have ever heard. If you are innocent you should not be in jail, unless this is all about money.
It’s always about money…
This is crazy!!! What the state of Missouri is doing is unconstitutional and let’s face it this is blatant racism and discrimination!! Shame on the state and city governments of Missouri for allowing this to go on for so long!!😡
I always wanted to see St. Louis but after watching this…..I think I’ll have to pass!!
I feel so sorry for those poor men, the many others this has happened to in the past and the ones that this is currently happening to!!!😔
Praying everyone that sees this contacts the Missouri Governor’s office and demands justice and freedom for all of these people!!🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
It’s St. Louis County and Jackson County… The whole state of Missouri.
Let's be honest here. These innocent men are kept in prison because of their race. The Governor and Attorney General of Missouri should be prosecuted for their complicity in wrongful imprisonment.
It's truly an aggravating and heart-breaking situation! There's no doubt in my mind that the people who don't want their freedom to happen are heartless, racist, 45-loving Republicans. The well of their hate is so deep!! 😡🇺🇸
Right... It's only Republicans who are capable of being evil and unjust.🤔🤦🤷
This is unjust! I pray they see the outdoors they deserve.
Are these men in Russia, North Korea or China.🤔
they are in misery
Exactly. This is absolutely a nightmare for these men, as well as their families. SMH😔
When the Central Park Five were exonerated after serving several years in prison, they were released and New York City awarded them $41m for wrongful confinement. Why not here?🤔
Because Missouri only pays when you are exonerated by DNA
Missouri, I mean Misery...only there for less than 23 hours and I hated it. It's creepy. Exes best man from there and he creeped me out also. Wierd 🤔
My home town and i wont go back!
Mine too, and I go back as often as possible. Missouri is fully jacked; I have work to do. I am grateful for my life and the people in it, many of whom still live and work there, and are caught up in the BS. I won’t leave someone/thing I love in an abusive relationship. 😞
This is the results of small attorney's with big egos...
Just wrong in so many ways
This is just stunning. It's a human rights tragedy of beyond epic proportions - it's criminal! Those poor men...they should be released immediately.
What a nightmare for both men! May God keep you both safe.
This is sooo sad....☹ If u r African American in this country. They automatically assume u belong behind bars.
Not true. The whole country doesn't collectively feel this way
Outrageous...beyond words! Something needs to be done ASAP to free these wrongly-convicted people!
Let me guess it's a Republican supreme court.
Thank you CBS Sunday Morning for such powerful stories. I kept wondering - what if we just said to everyone not letting them free: "What if this was your family member in prison for crime they didn't commit? Tell us honestly - would you accept them still being in prison?" Sure that is more complex than I realize! Much appreciation everyone doing such hard to getting cases like this overturned!
You can better believe that if the person sitting in prison for a crime he didn't commit was a white man from a wealthy family, like that of the current Governor of Missouri, that this situation would have been rectified YEARS ago. The people of Missouri need to remove the Governor from his job.
@@242HP I’m from Missouri out of St. Louis. We’ve try voting them out not been successful.
Maybe shocking to some but normal to too many of us as black men in America, some of us make it out of the police station, but too many never make it home.
Whoever is in charge of this whoever's behind this Whoever is in charge of this whoever's behind this whoever is the reason that they're still in prison they need to pay then need to pay badly They need to lose it all and they need to be turned in thrown in prison with an unlimited sentence
It's unfortunate that they don't have tens of thousands of dollars to spend on an attorney or a team of them. I doubt they would have srt foot in jail, never mind prison. In the end those who can pay always come out better than those who can't.
1:33 trying to pick his words b/c he doesn't want to offend anybody?? At this point you can use whatever words you want.
Totally agree with you friend. But I get where the gentleman is coming from...He's trying to lay-low & not pi$$ any one off. Sad.😔
Looks like the people need to rise up and replace these corrupt politicians who have no soul.
Unfortunately, many of the voters want elected officials who don't have souls, or decency, or the ability to THINK!
I wonder what the motivation is for keeping them incarcerated… what are the AG & Governor hiding? There must be more than a “duty to preserve every judgment”. The Governor & AG need to go!!
This is sooooooooo wrong let these men out of prison they are INNOCENT
Land of the free?!
Ugh...America's criminal justice system is so stupidly archaic and primitive
America has never had a criminal justice system. it has always had a legal system
What it comes down to is that if you're wealthy and/or well connected, chances are you'll go free, even if you're guilty, but if you're poor and unknown, you'll end up in jail, even if you're innocent. They released Bill Cosby, even with over 50 women claiming he sexually assaulted them.
@@242HP claims are baseless. anyone or any multiple of people can claim anything. there has to be proof. i think there was re: Bill Cosby but the technicalities of the American legal system got him released
@@eatpigsnot That was the point I was trying to make: that if you have enough money, you can hire a lawyer who can exploit the loopholes and flaws in our legal system, and get yourself off from just about any type of crime.
This is bullchips. ! I'm sure they can do something about it but don't want egg on their face. Shame on you Missouri !
How is this not a violation of their constitutional rights e.g., Amendment 8
- Excessive Bail, Fines, and Punishments Forbidden Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted? If keeping people found to be innocent imprisoned is not cruel and unusual, what is?
Free these men!
This is mind blowing. I knew prosecutors sometimes knowingly keep innocent people imprisoned but I had no idea even a principled prosecutor is impotent to right a wrong.
Just because it's "the law", DOESN'T MAKE IT RIGHT.
Because Missouri has an incarceration system and not a “Justice “ system
Prosecutors don't care if you're guilty or not. You're only a notch in their belt to them.
THESE BACKWOODS PLACES AND LAWYERS SHOULD BE DISBARRED AND SUED !!!! IT'S A DISGRACE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They should get 30,000$ for every year wrongly imprisoned. Whatever the average yearly income is.... in the state they are imprisoned. Color, Sex, Religion....doesn't matter. If you expect the citizens to be an example of high morals and civility...the government MUST lead by example.
Disgusting stuff. Let's see these guy free!
Unreal.
This is OUTRAGEOUS and everybody needs to know the in justice that goes on in the USA
Sad!! What's going on?
Very SAD story! People want an excuse not to think. The elected officials should be the ones who compensate these men and then take their places in prison.
Why is 'appeal' the chosen tool of exoneration? Why not some other procedural challenge or change to take action?
Why not a federal lawsuit against the state for unconstitutional imprisonment? It seems pretty clear cut if the evidence is clear and compelling.
Anyone who is innocent and imprisoned, that is a violation of their constitutional rights. At the federal level there must be an avenue for judicial relief.
Im going to write Schmitt ✍
This is injustice at its finest. No compensation and they are still incarcerated?? This needs to go federal.
I'm truly shocked ! And clearly the people in power won't rectify the mistake. On top of their life being stolen they will see no money if and when they get out just to have a shot of enjoying the rest of their life. Justice is not blind in this case it's stupid !
The title is Wrongly-convicted people, Not innocent people
Kevin Strickland. He still waited months from that apology to be released with no compensation........
But yet America is the "greatest country in the WORLD"?? Oh Please!!
My thoughts exactly!!!
Ah yes. The state of Josh Hawley.
The U. S. Supreme court will hear these cases and the wrongs will be corrected. Allowing civil lawsuits against communities, prosecutors, police, and their estates will solve these wrongfully convicted prosecutilons.
DO NOT EVER LIVE IN MISSOURI. They just made the number 48 ranking out of 50 states with me
Thank you cbs for doing this story!! The conditions in the prisons are just as shocking, no air conditioning, proper health care, and mandatory minimum sentences that obviously impact minorities unequally.
This. The American “justice” system...😞
Our current Vice President did things like this
Exactly
This is sooo wrong on every level imaginable!!! Free those young men u crazy Missourians!!!!!
No excuses, no Missouri “splainin” this institution racism. I suggest a boycott of anything in Missouri until this law and these conditions are changed.
So they're fighting for the system instead of fighting for justice. Every single one of them needs to go. Willingly or not
This is cruel and unusual punishment! We [the state] know you didn’t do it, the evidence shows you didn’t do it, we admit all that but we’re going to keep you in prison. This is a violation of their rights.
because they cant afford to get very good lawyers who are extremely expensive.
THIS CANNOT STAND.
The system sucks! Let them men out! Nothing worse then caged while innocent!
Presidential pardons?
IDT so they weren't convicted of federal crimes.
The president can only pardon federal crimes, these people would have to get a pardon from their governor. And don’t count on it when the innocent men are black Americans in a Republican state.
The law in Missouri needs to change. NOW.
One must have a stone at the place of the heart to let someone rot in prison when you know a simple signature would set them free.
Just because you're innocent does not mean you're innocent.
Profound
This country should be ashamed of itself
How many of these innocent people are African American ?
WTF is going on in Missouri?? This is such an injustice of justice
I’m embarrassed to say I grew up in MO
They should rename it the State of Misery.
I love the Sunday morning show
so informative
Longstanding of injustices against BM, BW and Black families. So now what do we do to stop things like this from happening and fix the losses to those affected?
Stay away from misery state.
This is so horrifyingly cruel.
No wonder they call it Missouri "Missery"
Because it's Misery .
Can they take to US...Supreme court..!!..Sue state. !!....Wrongful... Imprisonment....States should Have oversight..!!!...US Attorney General..!!
Broken system.
What a nightmare & total breach of trust. How can officials in the justice system ignore the mistaked & resulting injustice, they themselves, are responsible for & where involved in? The officials are responsible for honorable & correcting the mistakes made within the system, district attorney's office & the Penitentiary system. There has to be repercussions for officials who allow such an injustice to be perpetuated without any intention of correcting & freeing those prisoners/citizens who are wrongfully convicted. Those officials are corrupting "the spirit of our judicial systems" & breeding hopelessness & mistrust in the citizens who are discovering the official's dishonorable & duplicitous actions & inaction.
Good Morning :)