Kansas let a jailhouse liar steal our father’s life. Spare other families this agony
By Melody Bitzer on April 9, 2021
Long after our father had been wrongfully convicted, while we were growing up without him, essential pieces of information were uncovered that had been withheld from his defense attorney showing that the jailhouse witness was not reliable.
One of the key pieces of false evidence brought against our father were the words of an incarcerated informant — a man whom neither our father nor his family had ever even known, who told lie after lie to a jury who believed him, and whose testimony ultimately led to our father’s conviction and nearly 13 years of unjust imprisonment.
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