Rally For Justice!

207 West High Street,Jefferson City MO 65101

30 August, 2021

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Event is being put on to bring awareness to the Kevin Strickland & Lamar Johnson cases out of Missouri! Both men are wrongfully convicted! The Rally For Justice event is being put on by the National Organization of Exonerees in an effort to bring awareness to the wrongful conviction of both Kevin Strickland and Lamar Johnson of Missouri, who have spent decades incarcerated for crimes they did not commit!!! We are urging Attorney General Eric Schmitt and Governor Michael Parson to grant relief to these two men. These men are serving time for murders Missouri prosecutors say they didn't commit. Why are they still behind bars? FOR MORE INFORMATION YOU CAN CONTACT KENNETH NIXON at [email protected] or (313) 465-6812. ERIC FERKENHOFF | USA TODAY NETWORK | 21 hours ago The Missouri authorities who convicted an 18-year-old man in a 1978 Kansas City triple murder say they know he's not guilty. And in a 1994 St. Louis murder, local officials have known since at least 2019 that misconduct sent another young man to prison. Both are innocent, according to local prosecutors. Other people have confessed to the two slayings. But Kevin Strickland, convicted of the 1978 crime, and Lamar Johnson, convicted in 1995, remain in prison. Two cases on opposite ends of Missouri have this in common: State laws denying local prosecutors the right to vacate convictions have trumped evidence of the men's innocence. The two are also caught up in a politically charged fight pitting a tough-on-crime state attorney general, running for U.S. Senate, against Democratic prosecutors in Kansas City and St. Louis, who admit their offices got the cases wrong. Republican Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt submitted legal filings against both Strickland's and Johnson's release.