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Missouri AG: Conviction of former KCPD detective accused of killing Black man should be reversed
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) – Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey has filed a brief requesting to overturn the conviction of a former KCPD detective in the 2019 death of a Black man.
Eric DeValkenaere was convicted of second-degree manslaughter and armed criminal action in the 2019 killing of Cameron Lamb. DeValkenaere was later sentenced to six years in prison. He has remained free on bond.
Bailey filed his request Monday afternoon.
“The Court should reverse DeValkenaere’s convictions and order that he be discharged or order a new trial,” Bailey wrote.
Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker held an unplanned press conference on Monday evening to address a filing from Missouri’s attorney general regarding the Eric DeValkenaere case.
Baker was present with the trial team for the case against DeValkenaere. She said her office had heard rumors and that Mayor Quinton Lucas confirmed those rumors. “And that was a very unfortunate action taken by the Missouri attorney general late today,” Baker said.
Baker said the news was unprecedented.
“Keep in mind the Missouri attorney general is the highest law enforcement officer in the state,” Baker said. “So, as the highest law enforcement officer, well this is extremely distressing and unfortunate, disappointing.”
“He’s really attempting to expand his power to that of a judge,” Baker also said of the AG. “In this case, we already have a set of judges ready to hear this case; that’s the Western District Court of Appeals.”
Baker said she and the mayor discussed their concerns surrounding what might be next, including civil unrest.
Baker said she wouldn’t go into the detail of the AG’s filing, but that it implies the trial team and judge got it wrong.
“I want Kansas Citians to know this: This office will keep fighting,” Baker said. “It’s what we do. We fight for justice.”
Bailey wrote “The evidence credited by the trial court did not support the convictions entered by the trial court…DeValkenaere also was not criminally negligent—both because he did not act with criminal negligence in causing Mr. Lamb’s death and because he reasonably used deadly force in defense of Schwalm.”
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JASPER COUNTY, Mo. (KCTV) – An Olathe man was seriously injured in an early Friday morning crash in Jasper County, Missouri.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol said 24-year-old Jake Monaco was the driver of a 2009 Infiniti G37 that went off the left side of Interstate 44 and hit an embankment just after midnight Friday morning.
MSHP said Monaco’s vehicle overturned, ejecting him from the vehicle. He was not wearing a seatbelt according to the crash report.
The 24-year-old from Olathe crashed 6.5 miles west of Sarcoxie, Missouri. He was taken by emergency medical staff to a hospital.
The crash happened at 12:15 a.m. Friday, MSHP said.
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Missouri
Kidnapped child from Missouri, subject of Amber Alert, rescued Thursday in Wabaunsee County
ALMA, Kan. (WIBW) – A woman was taken into custody Thursday after a kidnapped child from Missouri who was the subject of an Amber Alert was rescued in Wabaunsee County, authorities said.
The rescue was reported to have occurred at 8:17 p.m. Thursday at the E. Spring Creek Road on-ramp to westbound Interstate 70 near Paxico in Wabaunsee County.
Authorities said an Amber Alert had been issued by the Missouri State Highway Patrol after a 12-year-old child was reported to have been kidnapped from Warsaw, Mo.
The child was reported to have been taken without permission by the non-custodial biological mother, officials said.
Wabaunsee County sheriff’s units, were joined by Alma City Marshal Mike Baker as they located the suspect vehicle.
The child was located unharmed. Authorities then took the child into police protective custody.
A woman identified as Anna Savard, 36, of Boise, Idaho, was taken into custody by Wabaunsee County sheriff’s deputies without further incident. Officials on Friday said Savard was being held in the Wabaunsee County Jail in Alma pending extradition warrants from the Benton County Sheriff’s Office in Missouri.
Also assisting were the Kansas Highway Patrol; Missouri Highway Patrol; Kansas Juvenile Intake; Warsaw, Mo., Police Department; and the Benton County Sheriff’s Office in Missouri, officials said.
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WARSAW, Mo. (KY3) — The Missouri Highway Patrol located a 12-year-old Warsaw girl authorities believed was with her non-custodial mother.
Bridgette Annaleise Crane disappeared from the area around the 2800 block of Cedar Hills Loop in Warsaw around 4:30 p.m. Investigators believed she was with her mother, Anna Savard, 36.
Authorities announced the child was found around 8:45 p.m. Authorities have not updated the whereabouts of the non-custodial mother.
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