spent over 30 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. Then a judge overturned his murder conviction and ordered for his release on Wednesday. But just when Dunn’s seemed imminent, Attorney General Andrew Bailey filed an appeal, and the Missouri Supreme Court granted his request, blocking Dunn’s release from .
This is the second time in a matter of weeks that Bailey has intervened and fought against an inmate’s release from prison who was found to be . In June, Bailey appealed the release of Sandra Hemme, the longest-held wrongly incarcerated woman known in the U.S.
, after her conviction was overturned. Hemme was eventually released on July 19th after a judge “threatened to hold the attorney general’s office in contempt of court.” Dunn found out about this reversal of fate while he was signing release paperwork and his wife was already “en route to pick him up.
” In a statement, Dunn’s , Kira Dunn, said, “We are devastated and so confused as to why the Missouri Supreme entertained the Attorney General’s improper intrusion into a matter already settled by a judge. Chris was literally a few steps away from freedom when the call came..
.This is unimaginably cruel treatment of a proven innocent person. It is torture.
It is pointless. It is a perversion of what justice should be in Missouri.” Dunn’s sentence stemmed from a 1990 shooting over the death of 15-year-old Ricco Rogers.
Even though the prosecution lacked any physical evidence that linked Du.