Josh Kezer: Kezer Receives Settlement, Not Apology. August 14, 2010 by Erin Mcneill

Saturday, August 14, 2010

Kezer Receives Settlement, Not Apology. August 14, 2010 by Erin Mcneill

Josh Kezer laughs after bowing to the media before getting in the car that was leading him away from Jefferson City Correctional Center as a free man on the day of his release. ¦ ASSOCIATED PRESS

http://www.columbiamissourian.com/stories/2010/08/14/josh-kezer-wrongful-conviction-settlement-lawsuit/#c

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Laurie in SCAugust 14, 2010 at 7:10 PM
Hi Josh, I just saw your story on On the Case with Paula Zahn. I'm so sorry for all you've been through and am so thankful you are using it all to glorify God. You are very inspiration and I thank you for sharing your story and for your example of forgiveness, acceptance and peace. God bless you and your family.
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Marcie MayoAugust 18, 2010 at 2:00 AM
He really does take Captivity captive. THanks be to God for your freedom and the Lord restoring you in every area of your life. You are a rich man because you understand that HE IS YOUR LIFE and nothing in all the world is worth more than His love. Keep taking His love into all the world JOSH. God is with you and clearly HE IS FOR YOU.
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AnonymousMarch 14, 2011 at 5:12 AM
God bless you and your family Josh.
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CraicCat66September 2, 2011 at 10:49 AM
Hiya Josh,

First of all, I just wanted to say, welcome back to the "outside"!! It's definitely a better place, with YOU in it! Your serenity, gentle spirit, and willingness to forgive, are extraordinary! And, something that we can all aspire to be more like. I do have to say that God does truly work in mysterious ways sometimes. Because, perhaps if you had stayed free, and surrounded by bad influences, you eventually could have gotten into all kinds of trouble...
Drugs-> Petty Theft-> GTA-> Armed Robbery. Once get into one, easy to transition from one to the next. Before you know it, you are in jail, for something that you actually did do. So, easy for me to say, and strange, but prob true... Wrongful conviction and incarceration, may actually have saved your life, in the long run!! Just a lil' food for thought to "chew" on.

Hope to hear from you here, or you can reach me on FB, under Catherine A. Riley in Duarte, CA.

Take care, and God bless,
Cat
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At 18, I was arrested in Illinois and sent to Missouri on a 1st degree murder charge. At 19, I was erroneously convicted of 2nd degree murder and sentenced to two consecutive 30 year sentences. I was sentenced on the victim's birthday. The victim's name was Angela M. Lawless.

The day following my sentence, I was sent to the Missouri Department of Corrections, where my sentence was illegally reconfigured to a 60. I was illegally placed under life sentence sanctions. I did a total of 16 years, 10 of which was spent in Jefferson City's notorious "Walls", once rumored to be the largest prison in the world and a place Time Magazine once deemed "The Bloodiest 47 Acres In America".

Two days after my 34th birthday, I was released and declared "innocent". I was completely exonerated by Judge Richard Callahan on February 17th 2009 and released on the 18th.

I'm a blessed, loved and fortunate man of God.

I'm not trying to be a "good Christian" and I accept that I'm not. I'm just a genuine, authentic, messed up, jacked up, screwed up, busted up, mistake prone, "too much", love struck, silly, incurable, delivered, justified, redeemed and forgiven child of the King and follower of Christ.

I'm a public speaker.

When contacting me for an engagement, please include the following information in your invitation:

. Dates, times and locations

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. Your vision and purpose

. Why me? and Why you?

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When I speak, my goal is to reach into every life listening to me. Everyone has something they're going through. Everyone has something to overcome. No matter what the circumstance, whether legal, criminal, personal, financial, physical, mental or spiritual, people have something to overcome. That's where my message comes in and tries to help. This wasn't who I was before I was locked up. It's who I am now.

What's your testimony?

Here's a snap shot of mine.

I've been beaten with fists and bats, stabbed, shot at, mobbed and ganged up on. As a teenager, I was in a Kankakee Illinois Chicagoland gang and was once addicted to several drugs and alcohol. I've had someone attempt to hit me with a car, nearly fallen to my death as a child and again as a teenager. I've known several forms and types of abuse. I've boxed, lifted weights, wrestled, done some martial arts and am proficient in street fighting. I've overdosed on cocaine and fallen asleep in my own vomit several times as a teenager. I've literally been thrown through walls, been homeless and slept in the worst places, and once, for a matter of months, faced the unfortunate and undeserved prospects of dying by lethal injection while facing charges for a murder I did not commit. I did 16 years in prison as an innocent man in the state of Missouri. I've defended myself against prison rapists and was once hospitalized for a week due to a failed attack by multiple men in the late 90's, and yet ... I'm still here! I'm still breathing! I'm a man of purpose and honor. I'm confident in who I am. I've known enough near death experiences to fill up a thesis, but it's not these near death experiences and atrocities that define me. It's my living and, more specifically, my living in my salvation in Christ that defines me and makes me who I am, and when I'm finished and it's all been said and done, I want to be forever known as a man proficient in a few attributes, as a gentle, loving, honorable and selfless man, a husband, a father and a friend that reflects more of Him and less of me.

In light of my own faults, sins and frailty, of everything I've ever learned, I've learned this more than anything; more than the Cross, I need the Lord of the conquered Cross of sin and death. I need the Life Giver. I need Jesus. Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior. I am unashamed.

"I was crushed...so much so that I despaired even of life, but that was to make me rely not on myself, but on the God who raises the dead." 2nd Corinthians 1:8,9

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Josh Kezer

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Kezer Receives Settlement, Not Apology. August 14, 2010 by Erin Mcneill

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