The judicial system can take a long time to prosecute crimes.
If someone is fighting their conviction, the legal battle takes even longer.
Missouri’s court system has checks and balances.
For Victor Vickers, the unanswered question is who has the authority to grant enough credit for time served so Vickers can get out of prison?
The 39-year-old Kansas City man was sentenced in Jackson County to life without parole for a first degree murder conviction in a deadly 2011 home invasion.
He also received 30-year sentences for first-degree assault and two counts of armed criminal action.
Vickers and his family have maintained his innocence.
“The words really didn’t register,” Lavern Vickers, his mother, told KSHB 41 reporter Alyssa Jackson. “I had to sit there for a minute and realize what the judge had just said. He said ‘Life without parole.”‘ “Then, I don’ t know if you call it a state of denial. I knew that wasn’t what God ordered for my son.”
Another Chance?
Since his conviction, Vickers’ case has taken many turns.