The Case of Ken Middleton

📻 Episode #288
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Sep 01, 2022

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The Case

On February 12th, 1990, a tragic accident occurred in which it is believed that Kathy Middleton mishandled a gun in her left hand, accidentally shooting herself one time in the head. The state turned this tragedy into a homicide investigation, sending her husband Ken Middleton to prison for life plus 200 years. In 2004, Ken had an opportunity to present to his motion trial court evidence of ineffective assistance of his counsel, as well as ballistics evidence that proved that the state's theory was impossible. Before the judge ruled, the state offered Ken freedom through an Alford plea, and he refused. Eventually, the judge granted him a new trial, but the state simply challenged that ruling on jurisdictional grounds, leaving Ken in prison ever since. A 2021 law now specifically grants that motion trial court the necessary jurisdiction, yet Ken and his family still await justice from prosecutor Jean Peters Baker.

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00:05:40
“Speaker 2: I'd injured my back and I wasn't working right then, Speaker 2: so I was going to the farm and doing projects, Speaker 2: working on the house and watching nice of the cattle Speaker 2: and stuff like that. Kathy worked today at and T Speaker 2: for twenty eight years, and two years you'd have her”

00:23:38
“Speaker 2: The prosecutor put on his so called experts saying that Speaker 2: she was two inches away from the wall, and that Speaker 2: I had my arm across her chest and held her Speaker 2: up against the wall and shot her and blood to experts. Speaker 2: Admitted that he had a week's training, and he's self taught.”

00:40:16
“Speaker 1: witness that testified on your father's behalf, the former governor Speaker 1: of Missouri. Yes, you heard that correctly. The former governor Speaker 1: of Missouri, Joseph P. Teesdale, testified on ken'sby had and Speaker 1: he had extensive trial experience as an assistant US attorney, Speaker 1: prosecuting attorney, and as a trial lawyer. And he testified”

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