Injustice Watch (https://www.injusticewatch.org/)
Lamonte McIntyre won his freedom after 23 years, locked up for a crime despite significant evidence he was innocent. Winning his freedom, it turns out, was only one in a series of struggles he faces with the State of Kansas.
Wyandotte County District Attorney Mark Dupree dropped the charges against McIntyre on Friday afternoon in the middle of a hearing to win McIntyre a new trial.
The hearing that Lamonte McIntyre has awaited for 23 years started and ended the same way: With relatives of two victims taking the stand to insist that the wrong man had been convicted for the murder of their loved ones.
A state board uses an arbitrary and opaque process to decide whether prisoners convicted of committing violent crimes decades ago should be released, an Injustice Watch review has found. The process is wracked by subjectivity, and that problem is not confined to Illinois.