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Wednesday, 19 December 2007
This plea is a face saver for the State of Ohio. They cannot retry Kenny because they know they do not have the evidence to do so.
This is about the strongest admission we are going to get from Ohio that they where wrong.
Kenny has not let anyone down. Enough was enough. 21 years in prison for something he did not do is long enough.
The thing people should remember is this:
"What Kenny always said was that he would never plead to starting the fire or trying to kill anyone. And he hasn't. The State has caved and dropped those claims because it can't prove them. What he is pleading "no contest" to is failure to baby-sit and stealing a plant. After 21 years in prison for an unconstitutional conviction on charges the State has now dropped, what sense did it make to spend six more months in prison to fight about a failure to baby sit and stealing a plant?"
The State dropped the murder charge and the arson charge, which is what Kenny has been fighting all these years. All he "pleaded" to was not doing everything he could to save Cynthia, and even on that, he didn't admit anything. He just said I won't contest those facts. The bottom line is he was vindicated. The State is conceding that it can't prove arson or murder. THAT's always been the point.
So don't be upset but rather be happy for Kenny. He is the one who has had to live this nightmare all those years. Not any of us and would we all have been so strong to last 21 years on death row if there was all the chances he already had, to plead guilty and walk?
Kenny has been adamant from day one that he did not commit this crime. And he would NEVER admit to something he did not do. There was no arson and there was no murder.
Karen