Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is asking a court to reverse the conviction or order a new trial for a former Kansas City police detective who shot and killed a Black man in 2019
— who they believed were jailed for murders they didn't commit. Both men were eventually released from prison.“The attorney general’s office does have broad responsibility for dealing with criminal appeals,” he said. “But lawyers don’t have to defend every single case. The attorney general’s office's highest duty is to pursue justice. If they think somebody is innocent, they don’t have to defend the conviction.
DeValkenaere to three years for involuntary manslaughter and six years for armed criminal action, with the sentences to run consecutively.In his motion, Bailey said Lamb's death was “tragic” and shouldn't have happened. But he argued that DeValkenaere used reasonable force because he believed Lamb was going to shoot Schwalm.
Prosecutors and Lamb's family had alleged the handgun was planted after the shooting. But Youngs did not address that issue when he convicted the detective.
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