A Missouri prosecutor has asked the state’s governor not to pardon a former Kansas City police detective sentenced to six years in prison for the fatal shooting of Cameron Lamb, saying that such a move would “subvert the rule of law” and sow distrust.
Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker said in a letter to Gov. Mike Parson thatand sentenced in the fatal shooting of Cameron Lamb, 26, at his own home in 2019 and that she was aware he had been lobbied for a pardon in the case.
The letter did not say who had sought the pardon for DeValkenaere. His lawyer did not immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday night. "The most significant threat to public safety will not come from community protests," she wrote."Perhaps the greater long-term harm will be an erosion of our public safety system as fair and just."
The statement accused Baker of trying to “earn political points for her re-election bid” and pointed to a prison re-entry initiative to show that Parson is “grounded in his faith and believes in second chances.”
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