Missouri AG Fights to Keep Woman in Prison After Judge Declares Her Innocent

This is another blood-boiler.

From NBC News:

"A 64-year-old Missouri woman with a history of mental illness has been declared innocent by a judge for a murder that she has spent more than four decades behind bars for and in which some now suspect a former police officer.

Sandra Hemme's innocence in the November 12, 1980, slaying of Patricia Jeschke in St. Joseph, Missouri, is “clear and convincing” the judge ruled last week.

But she remains behind bars, and Missouri's top prosecutor on Tuesday asked a court to put the brakes on releasing her."

Actually the evidence that the murder was committed by now-deceased St. Joseph, MO police officer Michael Holman, is overwhelming.  The fact that this woman spent 40+ years in prison because the police didn't want to arrest him is what it is.  But the way the AG is now wanting to double down on it is a serious problem that I have no idea how to begin addressing, like the situation with the missing indigenous women.

"Fellow police officer Michael Holman, who was found using the victim’s credit card the day after the murder; whose truck was seen parked near the victim’s home at the time she was killed; in whose closet the victim’s earrings were discovered; and who in the months before and after Ms. Jeschke’s murder, committed many other crimes against women," The Innocence Project said in a statement.

Anybody else would have been arrested right quick.  But the police had carte blanche with sex crimes in my day.  They just did.

This is another sick, sad, wrong situation in Missouri.  After the DOJ found systemic issues in Ferguson, did they fix anything?  I don't think so.  It's still a major septic tank as far as I can tell.  They'll have to show me that anything is better over there.