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<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="12622766" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="kevin-strickland" source="Orion">Kevin Strickland</keyword> was released from prison on Tuesday after spending 43 years incarcerated for a crime that he did not commit.</li><li>Strickland was exonerated without DNA evidence, which disqualified him from compensation from the state under <keyword id="11911042" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="missouri" source="Orion">Missouri</keyword> law.</li></ul>Kevin Strickland left a Missouri prison on Tuesday after being exonerated in a 1978 triple murder, but under Missouri law, he was ineligible for compensation from the state, despite spending 43 years behind bars for a crime that he did not commit.However, donations have been pouring in from supporters after the Midwest <keyword id="12087773" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="innocence-project" source="Orion">Innocence Project</keyword> set up <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-kevin-strickland-after-wrongful-conviction">a GoFundMe campaign</a> to help Strickland — who was taken into custody when he was just 18 years old — begin a new life.As of Saturday afternoon, the campaign had raised over $1.4 million from 25,000 donations.Tricia Rojo Bushnell, the attorney representing Strickland and the executive director of the Midwest Innocence Project, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/11/26/kevin-strickland-gofundme-donations/">told The Washington Post</a> on Friday that individuals from around the globe have sought to aid her client.Strickland does not have retirement savings or a work history to obtain Social Security benefits as a result of his wrongful conviction, and Missouri only <a href="https://revisor.mo.gov/main/OneSection.aspx?section=650.058">permits</a> compensation from the state if an individual's innocence is proven as a result of DNA testing."It's a very small minority of people who receive that," Bushnell told the newspaper. "The vast majority of folks who are exonerated are exonerated through non-DNA evidence and the vast majority of crimes do not involve DNA at all. So what we see in Missouri is folks get home and they are provided nothing.""He's 62 years old with physical problems. He's not going to be able to work in the way that many other folks coming home would. This has got to be something to sustain him," she added.Strickland was released from jail after Judge James Welsh ruled that the conviction should be vacated, as no physical evidence linked him to the crime."Under these unique circumstances, the Court's confidence in Strickland's convictions is so undermined that it cannot stand, and the judgment of conviction must be set aside," the judge wrote in ordering Strickland's immediate release, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/kansas-city-kansas-missouri-bba67efd61eaa165165e29a7298a1dc3">according to The Associated Press</a>.Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker, who supported Strickland's exoneration, swiftly moved to dismiss the criminal charges against him in order to facilitate the release.However, despite the concerted push for Strickland's release after the core testimony unraveled, two of the state's top officeholders offered a different view of the case.Republican Gov. <keyword id="12622767" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="mike-parson" source="Orion">Mike Parson</keyword>, who in June said that a pardon for Strickland <a href="https://www.insider.com/62-year-old-man-imprisoned-for-43-years-innocent-2021-6">was not</a> a "priority," as there were other <keyword id="12622770" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="clemency" source="Orion">clemency</keyword> cases that needed to be reviewed, <a href="https://twitter.com/GovParsonMO/status/1463227828720132096">tweeted</a> a basic statement about the ruling."The Court has made its decision, we respect the decision, and the Department of Corrections will proceed with Mr. Strickland's release immediately," he wrote.Attorney General Eric Schmitt, who is running in the 2022 Republican primary for the Senate seat being vacated by Roy Blunt, previously <a href="https://www.columbiamissourian.com/news/state_news/missouri-attorney-general-strickland-is-guilty-of-three-murders/article_36379a08-b675-5d0f-aaee-8125dd3c8c65.html">maintained</a> that Strickland was guilty of the crimes."In this case, we defended the rule of law and the decision that a jury of Mr. Strickland's peers made after hearing all of the facts in the case," a Schmitt spokesman said in a statement. "The Court has spoken, no further action will be taken in this matter."Despite family members presenting alibis for Strickland, along with one of the admitted killers stating that Strickland was not at the scene when the three victims — Sherrie Black, 22; Larry Ingram, 21; and John Walker, 20 — were murdered, he was still convicted and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for 50 years.The case had previously been constructed around the testimony of a witness who had recanted her testimony and has since died, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/kansas-city-kansas-missouri-bba67efd61eaa165165e29a7298a1dc3">according to The Associated Press</a>.Strickland had always maintained his innocence and told a group of reporters that he learned of the court's decision while watching television, with inmates cheering at the <keyword id="11893589" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="news" source="Orion">news</keyword> of his impending release."I'm not necessarily angry. It's a lot. I think I've created emotions that you all don't know about just yet. Joy, sorrow, fear. I am trying to figure out how to put them together," he told reporters as he left the Western Missouri Correctional Center.After Strickland's release, the first thing he did was <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/24/us/kevin-strickland-exonerated-triple-murder-trnd/index.html">visit</a> his mother's grave.

An exonerated Missouri man who was released from prison after 43 years isn't eligible for compensation from the state. Donors have now raised over $1.4 million on GoFundMe.

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Kevin Strickland was released after 43 years in a Missouri prison for a <keyword id="11893298" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="crime" source="Orion">crime</keyword> he didn't commit.</li><li>Experts said his release follows several cases of injustices in the legal system being reviewed.</li></ul>After nearly 43 years behind bars for a crime he didn't commit, a judge in Jackson County, Missouri has granted Kevin Strickland immediate release. Strickland now, 62, is one of the longest serving wrongful convictions in US history and the longest serving by over a decade in Missouri. At the age of 18, Strickland was wrongfully convicted of killing three people in 1978. "There's no giving those 43 years back to me," Strickland <a href="https://www.kansascity.com/news/article256019917.html#storylink=cpy">told The Kansas City Star</a>. "I lost my life."Strickland's release follows several high-profile cases of injustices in the legal system at the expense of Black communities being reviewed years, sometimes decades, later. Near Orlando, Florida, the Groveland four were exonerated last week for the wrongful conviction of the 1949 rape of a white girl. The Lake County District Attorney's office found prosecutorial misconduct and the fabrication of evidence at the time of the trial.Charles Greenlee, Walter Irvin, Samuel Shepherd and Ernest Thomas — three adults and one minor at the time and now all deceased —were convicted of the 1949 rape of Norma Padgett. State Sen. Randolph Bracy, a Democrat, said while the exoneration does not "fix the racial injustice that is so pervasive in our criminal justice system," the motion gave the family closure. They were cleared of all charges on November 22nd. And last week, two of the three men convicted of killing Malcolm X, Muhammad Aziz and Khalil Islam, were exonerated by the Manhattan District Attorney's office. The DA reopened the murder investigation in 2019 after uncovering that the Federal Bureau of Investigations and the New York Police Department withheld evidence - including the presence of undercover police officers at his assassination. Aziz is now 83 and Islam died in 2009. Malcolm X was killed on February 21,1965.<div type="image" title="Muhammad Aziz Malcolm X" height="3836" width="5115" msid="88019077" hostid="261"></div>Historian and legal expert, Peniel E. Joseph tied this recent <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/18/opinions/malcolm-x-assassination-exoneration-joseph/index.html">slew</a> of exonerations, particularly in Mr. Aziz and Mr. lslam's cases, to a larger push since the <keyword id="11965127" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="racial-justice" source="Orion">racial justice</keyword> protest last summer to reconcile the racist history in the US criminal justice system. "Their exonerations join a spate of recent events that illustrate how America's racial history is being rewritten and how the past continues to inform the present. " <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/18/opinions/malcolm-x-assassination-exoneration-joseph/index.html">Joseph</a> wrote in a column. In the Jim-Crow time <a href="https://www.insider.com/newspapers-helped-uphold-white-supremacist-political-economy-historian-says-2021-10">period</a>, it was not uncommon for Black men to be lynched by white mobs if they were accused of committing a crime. In the case of The Groveland four, Lake County Sheriff Willis McCall led an all white-mob into town, shooting Thomas more than 400 times, <a href="https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/jul/26">killing</a> him. Willis in 1951 shot and killed Shepard when he was being transported in police custody. Irvin died in 1969 shortly after receiving parole. Greenlee received parole in 1962 and died in 2012. "I would not hate, but I will love and embrace all of those who did not know at the time that my father was a caring and loving and compassionate person that did not rape anybody," Carol Greenlee, the daughter of Charles Greenlee, said at a press conference Monday morning following the court hearing."I stand here today to say thank you," she added.Strickland won't be able to seek monetary compensation for his wrongful conviction due to Missouri wrongful conviction compensation law which only allows formerly incarcerated people to prove their innocence through a DNA statue. In response, supports have <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/kevin-strickland-wrongfully-convicted-missouri-law-gofundme-donations-2021-11">raised more than $1.6 million</a> in support for his new life.Mr. Aziz and Mr. Islam's family have not publically said if they will file a lawsuit against Manhattan County for their wrongful conviction. According to <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/new-york-judge-vacates-convictions-two-men-1965-murder-malcolm-x-2021-11-18/">Reuters</a>, however,the family could seek up to one million dollars for every year they were wrongfully imprisoned. Whether these families take the next step to seek monetary restoration, legal analysts see their exonerations as a larger momentum swing in the fight for racial justice.

Delayed justice for Kevin Strickland, the Groveland 4 highlight a racial reckoning in criminal justice

<ul class="summary-list"><li>"<keyword id="36237" type="SPORT" weightage="60" keywordseo="basketball">BASKETBALL</keyword> COUNTY: In The Water" — <keyword id="146874" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Kevin-Durant">Kevin Durant</keyword>'s and <keyword id="4827525" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="rich-kleiman">Rich Kleiman</keyword>'s new <keyword id="268411" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="Showtime">Showtime</keyword> documentary — shines a light on Prince George's County, Maryland, and its residents' disproportionate professional basketball success.</li><li>Since 2000, the 800,000-person region has produced roughly 25 <keyword id="6361805" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="NBA">NBA</keyword> players, including <keyword id="100883" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Los-Angeles-Lakers">Los Angeles Lakers</keyword> point guard <keyword id="9228890" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="quinn-cook">Quinn Cook</keyword>.</li><li>The documentary highlights Cook's long and winding journey to the league, and his journey from NBA Draft snub to league champion was one of the film's most salient storylines.</li><li>Insider spoke with Cook about his upbringing in PG County, his relationship with Durant, his tenacity in finding a role in the NBA, and more.</li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Insider's homepage for more stories</a>.</li></ul>Kevin Durant's and Rich Kleiman's new Showtime documentary "BASKETBALL COUNTY: In The Water" shines a light on Durant's home of Prince George's County, Maryland, and its residents' disproportionate success on the basketball court.<div type="image" title="quinn cook.JPG" height="1675" width="2233" msid="75769483" hostid="261"></div>Since 2000, the region — which is home to some 800,000 people in total — has produced countless college basketball players, about a dozen WNBA stars, and roughly 25 NBA players, including Los Angeles Lakers point guard Quinn Cook."If you grow up in PG [County] and you want to play basketball, you have a head start on the competition," Cook told Insider. "You have so much access to a lot of greatness."Cook's long and winding road to the NBA emerges as a compelling subplot embedded in the greater narrative of what makes Prince George's County special.Multiple PG County natives turned professional basketball players — including Durant and Jerian Grant — and coaches from the area spoke at length in the film about Cook's remarkable tenacity.<div type="image" title="QuinnCook1" height="1080" width="1920" msid="75769484" hostid="261"></div>"It's the cliche term of 'You can doing anything you put your mind to' but Quinn is the perfect definition of it," Keith Thomas of Coach Team Takeover said of Cook during the documentary. "He had plenty of people in his ear telling him his best route was going overseas trying to get money, but Quinn had a dream."<h2>Cook grew up alongside many a budding basketball star in Prince George's County</h2>There, the legacy of NBA, WNBA, and NCAA greats that had walked those same streets before them was palpable. He spent his first three years of high school playing for DeMatha Catholic — a well-known entity in the world of high school basketball — and notes in the film that "on my high school team we had five guys make the NBA."<div type="image" title="QuinnDeMatha0" height="480" width="720" msid="75769485" hostid="261"></div>"The thing that makes PG County so unique is that the guy you want to be like is bringing you up," Cook said. "The D1 players and NBA players bring you up because they know what they had to go through to make it."Two-time NBA All-Star Victor Oladipo, first-round draft pick Jerian Grant, his brother, Jerami Grant, and an abundance of standouts for top-tier college programs played on Cook's junior-year squad that was ranked first in the state. He later took his talents to Oak Hill Academy in Virginia, following in the footsteps of successful point guards like Rajon Rondo, Ty Lawson, Nolan Smith, Rod Strickland, and Brandon Jennings."It takes a village really," Cook said. "Just having all the resources. We're a family. We all root for each other. We all want to see each other be great, and we all support each other. That's what makes our county so unique and special."<div type="image" title="quinn cook coach k" height="1786" width="2500" msid="75769486" hostid="261"></div>He committed to play for Mike Krzyzewski's Duke Blue Devils and spent four years working his way up from role player to starter and captain. He was also the heartbeat of the stacked 2014-2015 squad that hung yet another national championship banner in the rafters of Cameron Indoor Stadium.<h2>Still, Cook's college success wasn't enough to put him on the NBA's radar</h2>He watched teams pass him by with each of the 60 picks of the 2015 NBA Draft, and when it was all over, "felt sorry for myself for about two minutes.""Every kid dreams of getting drafted," Cook said in the documentary. "I knew what I was going to wear. I knew what I was going to do as soon as I heard my name called, but it never happened."<div type="image" title="quinn cook" height="1762" width="2349" msid="75769487" hostid="261"></div>Even if Cook himself ever had any doubts that he'd find a way to achieve his dreams, those who grew up around him knew better."When he didn't get drafted, everybody knew he was going to be alright because that's the type of player he is," Jerian Grant said in the documentary.Durant felt similarly."[Cook] called me when he didn't get drafted, and he was crying," he said in the film. "And I'm like 'Bro, you've got talent. Just keep working.' He never stopped."<div type="image" title="quinn cook kevin durant.JPG" height="1630" width="2174" msid="75769490" hostid="261"></div>"There's definitely this feeling from Kevin of just wanting to make sure Quinn is good," Kleiman told Insider. "Kevin has his own matter-of-fact way of leading, and I think that he feels a responsibility to Quinn in that way."And on the other end of the relationship, Cook knew Durant was always part of his support system, going as far as describing him as a big brother."KD has always been a big brother to me and someone that I reached out to for anything," Cook told Insider. "He's reached out to me just making sure I was okay. He's always been there for me."<h2>Cook spent years cycling between working his way onto NBA rosters and dropping down to the D-League</h2>In 2016, the 6-foot-1 point guard earned D-League Rookie of the Year honors after recording 19.6 points on 47% shooting from the field in addition to 5.4 assists and 3.9 rebounds per game.<div type="image" title="quinn cook" height="1849" width="2465" msid="75769492" hostid="261"></div>He got the call up to participate in that year's NBA Summer League and subsequently signed with the New Orleans Pelicans, but the franchise waived him before the regular season started. He went back to the Canton Charge and was the MVP of the 2017 D-League All-Star Game before signing a series of 10-day contracts with various NBA teams.<div type="image" title="quinn cook" height="2248" width="1904" msid="75769493" hostid="261"></div>Though many prospects in positions similar to his may have considered taking their talents overseas, Cook never lost sight of his NBA dream and refused to waver. "I never thought about it. I never entertained it," Cook said. "I told my agent to never bring me anything overseas. If it wasn't the NBA, I didn't want to do it. I think that's where it starts. If you're contemplating on overseas and have one foot in one foot out, you lose focus. But for me, I was zeroed in. I was focused in on making the league."<h2>Cook eventually found a foothold in the NBA with the Golden State Warriors</h2>When superstar sharpshooter Stephen Curry was sidelined with a series of injuries from late 2017 to early 2018, the D-League standout stepped up to fill the void and eventually earned a two-year deal. With Durant by his side, Cook and the 2018 Warriors won the NBA Finals. He was emotional, reflecting on his journey after the victory."It takes a long time to get really good at playing basketball, and a lot of those guys grind it out for a while," Durant said in the documentary. "Quinn Cook is the same way ... Just never stop working, man. That's what I tell people. Look at Quinn."Cook has since moved on to join LeBron James and Anthony Davis in Los Angeles. He described playing for the Lakers — his favorite NBA team from childhood — as "a dream come true.""I used to collect Lakers jerseys and gear," Cook told Insider. "We had a Lakers room in our house with all of our stuff, and it was purple and gold. We were obsessed with the Lakers growing up, and so obviously playing for the team is something that you can only dream of."<div type="image" title="quinn cook.JPG" height="1667" width="2222" msid="75769495" hostid="261"></div>Though the documentary only devotes a few moments to Cook's journey from NBA Draft snub to league champion, his story of triumph was one of the film's most salient"Obviously going through the G League, playing on a 10-day contract, getting waived in training camps and stuff like that to winning a championship, I had to go through hell to make it," Cook told Insider."If you go out there and you live your life with no regrets and work as hard as you can and be a professional, great things will happen to you," he added.<ul class="read-more-links"><li>Read more:</li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/kevin-durant-rich-kleiman-showtime-documentary-pg-county-nba-2020-5">Kevin Durant and Rich Kleiman shine a light on disproportionate professional basketball success of PG county in new Showtime documentary</a> <a href="https://www.insider.com/rich-kleiman-reflects-kevin-durant-mvp-speech-2020-5">Agent Rich Kleiman reflects on Kevin Durant's famous 2014 MVP speech: 'You're never going to replicate that moment'</a> <a href="https://www.insider.com/victor-oladipo-itching-more-than-someone-with-chickenpox-nba-return-2020-5">Victor Oladipo is 'itching more than someone with Chickenpox' to resume NBA play even though he is keeping busy in quarantine</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/nba-stars-conference-call-in-favor-of-restarting-the-season-2020-5">LeBron James, Steph Curry, and many of the biggest names in the NBA are reportedly united in favor of restarting the season</a></li></ul>Read the original article on <a href="https://www.insider.com/quinn-cook-nba-breakthrough-story-pg-county-documentary-2020-5">Insider</a>

The surprise feel-good story of Kevin Durant's new documentary on basketball Quinn Cook's NBA breakthrough

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Three passengers are suing Alaska Airlines and Boeing for $1 billion.</li><li>The law firm said the "preventable incident" jeopardized the lives of 180 people. </li></ul>Three people who were on board <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/boeing-ceo-says-alaska-airlines-blowout-caused-by-quality-escape-2024-1">Alaska Airlines Flight 1282</a> are asking for $1 billion in punitive damages from the carrier and Boeing.Kyle Rinker, Amanda Strickland, and Kevin Kwok flew on the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/boeing-737-max-safety-record-crashes-issues-2024-1">Boeing 737 Max 9</a> which lost its door plug in midair on January 5, according to a press release from the aviation law firm Jonathan W. Johnson LLC.The blowout caused an uncontrolled decompression, meaning oxygen masks were deployed before the jet returned to Portland International Airport 20 minutes later. Nobody was seriously injured.The lawsuit was filed last month in Multnomah County, which includes Portland, Oregon.In its press release, the law firm said it "seeks to hold Boeing accountable for its negligence which had caused extreme panic, fear, and post-traumatic stress."It added that it is asking for "substantial" damages because the "preventable incident" risked the lives of 180 people.<div type="image" title="A screenshot of a tweet from Kyle Rinker shows a hole in the side of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 and oxygen masks deployed." height="723" width="605" msid="108207712" hostid="261" sizebytes="29170"></div>Referring to the subsequent <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/boeing-737-max-9-inspections-safety-return-service-experts-whistleblower-2024-1">grounding of 171 Max 9 jets</a>, the law firm said, "the defects in manufacturing impacted numerous other aircraft and threatened the lives of the passengers on all Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft."The door plug — which covers a deactivated emergency exit on configurations with a smaller capacity — came off after the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/alaska-airlines-boeing-737-blowout-missing-bolts-ntsb-investigation-2024-2">plane left Boeing's factory missing key bolts</a>, the National Transportation Safety Board said in its preliminary report into the incident.According to <a target="_blank" href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alaska-airlines-flight-1282-door-plug-blowout-1-billion-lawsuit-airline-boeing/">CBS News</a>, the lawsuit says the blowout is "just one terrible chapter in the evolving story of Boeing and Alaska Airlines placing profits above safety."The complaint follows a <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/alaska-airlines-passengers-hit-by-debris-faulty-oxygen-masks-lawsuit-2024-1">class-action lawsuit against Boeing and Alaska Airlines</a> filed in January on behalf of 14 people.It said one of them was hit in the face by debris that came out of the cockpit, several struggled with their oxygen masks, and one man had a stress-related seizure after landing.Boeing declined to comment when contacted by Business Insider. Alaska Airlines did not immediately respond to a request for comment, made outside regular US working hours.

3 passengers on the Alaska Airlines blowout flight are suing the carrier and Boeing for $1 billion

<ul class="summary-list"><li>A <keyword id="6576196" type="LOCATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="missouri">Missouri</keyword> prosecutor's office has said a 62-year-old man was wrongly convicted of killing three people.</li><li>Kevin Strickland has spent the last 43 years in prison for three 1978 murders in <keyword id="131662" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Kansas-City">Kansas City</keyword>.</li><li>The key witness in the case who was the sole survivor of the attack has recanted her testimony. </li></ul>A 62-year-old man from Missouri has spent the last 43 years in prison for three murders a local prosecutor and the key witness in the case say he didn't commit. According to a report from <a href="https://abc7.com/prosecutor-says-man-was-wrongfully-imprisoned-for-decades-yet-he-remains-behind-bars/10779526/">ABC News</a>, Kevin Strickland was in 1979 convicted of three Kansas City murders that took place the year prior. The three murders occurred just two miles from Strickland's home in Kansas City, according to the report. Strickland, who was 18 years old when the three people were gunned down, has maintained that he was at home watching television and talking on the phone with his girlfriend at the time of the murders, according to the report.At the time, Jackson County Prosecutors said they found Strickland's fingerprints on another suspect's car, but Strickland said he had known him since childhood and had previously driven his vehicle.Cynthia Douglas, the sole surviving victim in the case, had identified Strickland in a lineup, according to the report.The same Jackson County Prosecutor's office that tried Strickland now believes he is "factually innocent" of the murders, according to the Kansas City Star report."I'm here advocating for Mr. Strickland's freedom and his conviction should be vacated," Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker said last month. "Most importantly, though, I am advocating that this man must be freed immediately."In sworn statements, two other men, Vincent Bell and Kilm Adkins, admitted to the murders and cleared Strickland of involvement, according to ABC <keyword id="6355005" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="news">News</keyword>. A third suspect who never faced charges in 2019 also claimed Strickland was innocent, the <a href="https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article252025358.html">Kansas City Star</a> reported.Strickland's first trial resulted in a hung jury, according to the Kansas City Star. The lone Black juror on the case was the only holdout, the report said. Strickland was later convicted by an all-white jury.Douglas, the sole survivor of the attacks and the key witness in the original trial, has since recanted her story. In 2009, Douglas contacted the Midwest Innocence Project and said she believed Strickland had been "wrongly charged," according to the Kansas City Star.Calls to free Strickland have grown since the Midwest Innocence Project took on his case three years ago, according to ABC News. More than a dozen bipartisan state lawmakers have recently called on Missouri Gov. Mike Parson, a Republican, to pardon Strickland.But Strickland remains in prison.Parson at the end of May issued a list of 36 pardons, but Strickland was not among them, the Kansas City Star reported. Parson, meanwhile, has said that Strickland's case is not a "priority." "When something like that comes up, we look at those cases, but I don't know that that necessarily makes it a priority to jump in front of the line," Parson said on Monday, according to the <a href="https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article251938243.html">Kansas City Star</a>. "We understand some cases are going to draw more attention through the media than others, but we're just going to look at those things."

62-year-old Missouri man who has spent 43 years in prison in still behind bars even though prosecutors say he was wrongly convicted for 3 murders

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck celebrated their wedding on Saturday in Georgia.</li><li>The couple got legally married in a Las Vegas ceremony in July, Lopez confirmed in her newsletter.</li></ul>Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck celebrated their recent nuptials with an extravagant ceremony in Riceboro, Georgia, on Saturday.Lopez <a href="https://www.insider.com/jlo-gushes-about-ben-affleck-in-wedding-announcement-2022-7">confirmed in her newsletter</a> last month the couple got legally married on July 16 at the Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas. The dancer and actress gushed about her new husband in the letter, writing that love is "twenty years patient."The pair first got engaged <a href="https://www.insider.com/jennifer-lopez-ben-affleck-relationship-timeline-photos">in 2002 before postponing</a> their wedding and ending their relationship in 2004. They rekindled their romance in 2021 and got engaged for a second time in April.Representatives for Lopez and Affleck did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.<h2>The wedding took place at Affleck's estate on an island off the coast of Georgia</h2>Affleck's 87-acre compound sits alongside the North Newport River in Georgia's <a href="https://hamptonislandpreserve.com/">Hampton Island Preserve</a>, <a href="https://people.com/home/ben-affleck-is-selling-his-87-acre-private-georgia-island-compound-for-8-9-million/">People reports</a>. The outlet reports that the property contains three separate homes, a dock complex, and a brick path that leads to the river.According to public records obtained by <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/ben-affleck-lists-private-georgia-compound-for-8-9-million-1527690804">The Wall Street Journal</a>, the actor bought the property for $7.1 million in 2003 — while he was still dating Lopez. <a href="https://pagesix.com/2022/08/20/controversial-past-of-bennifers-plantation-style-wedding-venue/">Page Six notes</a> that property records show he put the home on the market for $8.9 million in 2018 before lowering the price and eventually taking it off the market.The outlet also reports that the venue, which includes equestrian facilities and a 10,000-square-foot guest house, has a controversial history. Architect James Strickland reportedly designed the property in 2002 to resemble a Southern plantation.<a href="https://pagesix.com/2022/08/18/jennifer-lopez-ben-affleck-shop-with-kids-in-georgia-ahead-of-wedding/">Page Six shared photos</a> of Lopez and Affleck walking around Savannah, Georgia, with Affleck's children on Thursday. Although Lopez's twins Emme and Maximillian — who she shares with ex-husband Marc Anthony — were not seen with the couple in Savannah, <a href="https://people.com/movies/jennifer-lopez-ben-affleck-wedding-celebration-in-georgia/">People reported</a> that both Affleck and Lopez's children were part of their wedding celebration.<h2>Photos show guests in an all-white dress code at the ceremony</h2><a href="https://www.etonline.com/inside-jennifer-lopez-and-ben-afflecks-georgia-wedding-all-guests-wear-white-a-firework-display">A source told Entertainment Tonight</a> that wedding guests congregated at The Perry Lane Hotel in Savannah before attending the wedding. The source added that while most people wore white dresses and suits, some guests went for more daring looks with shorts, sneakers, a fringe leather jacket, and a sparkling cowboy hat.One of those guests appeared to be Affleck's friend and director Kevin Smith, best known as one half of the fictional film duo Jay and Silent Bob, who <a href="https://twitter.com/ThatKevinSmith/status/1561103115306389505">tweeted a picture</a> of his informal wedding look on Saturday. He attended the wedding with his wife Jennifer Schwalbach Smith, his "Clerks" costar Jason Mewes, and Mewes' wife Jordan Monsanto."This is as formal as I've been dressed since maybe my First Communion when I was 7," he wrote.Smith and Mewes weren't the only stars to attend the Southern wedding. <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/08/ben-affleck-jennifer-lopez-prepare-for-wedding-extravaganza-in-georgia">According to Vanity Fair</a>, Affleck's longtime friend and collaborator Matt Damon, his wife Luciana Bozán Barroso, and Lopez's "Second Act" costar Leah Remini were at the event.Affleck's ex-wife Jennifer Garner was reportedly not in attendance because she's working on a project in Texas, <a href="https://hollywoodlife.com/2022/08/18/jennifer-garner-attendance-ben-affleck-jennifer-lopez-wedding-details/">a source told Hollywood Life</a> on Thursday. Affleck's brother, actor Casey Affleck, was also missing from the nuptials because of "parental obligations at home," <a href="https://people.com/movies/casey-affleck-missed-brother-ben-affleck-wedding-celebration-due-parental-obligations-source/">another source told People</a>.<a href="https://www.eonline.com/news/1339573/jennifer-lopez-and-ben-affleck-get-married-again-during-georgia-wedding-celebration">E! News writes</a> that author and podcaster Jay Shetty officiated the ceremony.<h2>The bride and groom arrived at their luxurious wedding in style</h2>According to <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2022/08/20/jlo-ben-affleck-wedding-bride-jennifer-lopez-dress-georgia/">TMZ</a>, the couple appeared to arrive by boat before greeting friends and family on a dock.Lopez wore a short-sleeved dress with a long, tulle train and a cathedral-length veil, while Affleck wore a white tuxedo jacket with black pants and a black bow tie. <a href="https://people.com/movies/jennifer-lopez-ben-affleck-wedding-celebration-in-georgia/">People reports</a> that Lopez's wedding dress was made by Ralph Lauren.According to the publication, the lavish, all-white dress code carried over to the decor — the event featured an all-white piano, white flowers, and white chairs. The newlyweds also appeared to have a neon sign that read <a href="https://publish.twitter.com/?query=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FBenniferUpdates%2Fstatus%2F1561162381467738114&amp;widget=Tweet">"Mr. and Mrs. Affleck"</a> and a firework display for guests.

Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck celebrated their marriage with an opulent ceremony in Georgia. Take a behind-the-scenes look at their all-white wedding.

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image">AP</div></div></div>When, in the near future, a driverless car gets into an accident with another driverless car, it's going to be difficult to establish who is at fault. Is it the "driver," the car company, or even the programmer?But what's not hard to establish is who will likely benefit: lawyers.<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-22/driverless-cars-give-lawyers-bottomless-list-of-defendants">Bloomberg interviewed</a> plaintiff's lawyers and described them as "<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-22/driverless-cars-give-lawyers-bottomless-list-of-defendants">salivating</a>" over the potential paydays from driverless cars."You're going to get a whole host of new defendants," Kevin Dean, an attorney suing General Motors over its faulty ignition switches, <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-22/driverless-cars-give-lawyers-bottomless-list-of-defendants">told Bloomberg</a>. "Computer programmers, computer companies, designers of algorithms, Google, mapping companies, even states. It's going to be very fertile ground for lawyers."Right now, the person with primary responsibility for a car accident is the car owner. But when a robot is driving the car, that is likely going to be hard for car owners to stomach. Someone will challenge those laws in court."There's going to have to be some changes to the laws," David Strickland, former head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-22/driverless-cars-give-lawyers-bottomless-list-of-defendants">told Bloomberg</a>. "There is no such thing right now that says the manufacturer of the automated system is financially responsible for crashes."And once liability is sorted out, there is the chance that payouts to those injured by robots cars could be bigger than those hit by human-controlled ones. Why? Because the companies that make the driverless cars have a lot more cash than your average driver."If you have to be hit by a car, then you should hope that you're hit by an automated car because you will likely have recourse to a company or companies with far deeper pockets than your average driver, vehicle owner or insurance policy," law professor Bryant Walker Smith <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-22/driverless-cars-give-lawyers-bottomless-list-of-defendants">told Bloomberg</a>.And you can bet the lawyers will be ready. <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/googles-self-driving-car-problem-human-drivers-safety-2015-11">Google's self-driving car has a huge problem</a></h3> <div> <div> <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="NrOWVjdzqcfE7uioV2jlxu3iQFQZkTQj" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div> </div> </div> </div>

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