Innocent Man Sues Scott County Over Wrongful Murder Conviction
Missouri Lawyers Media › September 14, 2009
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A man who served nearly 15 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit is suing Scott County and the officials who investigated the murder.
Joshua C. Kezer was released from the Jefferson City Correction Center a day after Cole County Circuit Judge Richard Callahan exonerated him in February. Kezer had been convicted in 1994 of the murder of Angela Mischelle Lawless and sentenced to 60 years in state prison.See the full content of this document
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Innocent Man Sues Scott County Over Wrongful Murder Conviction
On Monday, Kezer filed a civil rights lawsuit against William F. Ferrell, the Scott County sheriff from January 1977 until January 2005; and Brenda Schiwitz, a deputy under Ferrell and the lead investigator of the murder of Lawless.
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