Wrongfully Convicted Kansas Man Awarded $1.5 Million After Spending 23 Years In Prison

[Judi Lynn]

February 26, 2020 - 10:59 pm by VIBE Staff
Lamonte McIntyre sued the state of Kansas in 2019.


A Kansas man, who spent more than half of his life in prison for a wrongful conviction, was awarded a $1.5 million settlement on Monday (Feb. 24). Lamonte McIntyre sued the state last year under a newly-implemented wrongful conviction statute.

“Today, Lamonte McIntyre has been declared, finally and conclusively, a completely innocent man. That long-overdue recognition, along with the statutory payment and other benefits will help lighten a bit the heavy load he has carried,” McIntyre’s lawyer, Cheryl A. Pilate, told CNN on Monday.

The settlement includes counseling, access to state-funded healthcare benefits for 2020 and 2021, and a tuition waiver to cover his post-secondary education up to 130 credit hours.

McIntyre was wrongly convicted in the 1994 murders of Donald Ewing and Doniel Quinn. He was just 17 years old at the time and served 8,583 days in prison before being released in 2017 at age 41.

More:
https://www.vibe.com/2020/02/wrongfully-convicted-kansas-man-1-5-million-settlement

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Article from 2017, before Lamonte McIntyre was finally awarded damages:



After 23 Years In Prison, Freed Kansas City Man Trying To 'Believe It's Real'
By PEGGY LOWE • OCT 20, 2017

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On Friday, Oct. 13, McIntyre, 41, was exonerated for a double murder he was convicted of in what Wyandotte County District Attorney Mark Dupree said was a “manifest injustice.”

McIntyre told KCUR’s Up to Date that he was angry when he was first imprisoned, but that he educated himself in prison, found God again, and decided to do what was best for himself.

“I wanted to take care of myself because I knew that one day I’d see freedom,” McIntyre says. “One way of that was getting rid of all the anger and hate I had in me and forgave everybody who had a hand in making sure that I’d never see daylight again.”

Just 17 at the time, McIntyre was charged as an adult in the 1994 murders, despite a lack of evidence and in what some have suggested was a drug killing. Kansas City attorney Cheryl Pilate, who represented McIntyre, built her case around misconduct between a local police officer, a prosecutor and a judge.

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Rosie McIntyre says she worked constantly for her son’s release – even getting help from one of the victim’s mother, who knew McIntyre was innocent – and suffered a couple breakdowns.

More:
https://www.kcur.org/post/after-23-years-prison-freed-kansas-city-man-trying-believe-its-real#stream/0

[lunasun]

1. Not enough money

[Baked Potato]

2. Not nearly enough.

[Skittles]

3. NOT ENOUGH

[drray23]

4. Completely inadequate.

Several times that amount would be what's needed.