Help Cedric Warren Rebuild After Wrongful Conviction

Cedric Warren was a teenager was he was wrongly arrested for a 2009 crime in Kansas City, Kansas, that he did not commit.

No physical evidence tied Cedric to the Feb. 13, 2009, homicides of Larry LeDoux and Charles Ford. His fingerprints were not found at the crime scene, he did not possess the large sum of money or drugs taken during the crime, all DNA testing has excluded Cedric. The only evidence used to convict Cedric came from a sole, uncorroborated, and mentally ill witness who police dropped off at a psychiatric institution just after taking his statement. Detectives failed to thoroughly investigate the crime, and instead homed in on two innocent young men: Cedric and Dominic Moore.

This week, a judge in Wyandotte County threw out both of their murder convictions, finding that their constitutional rights were significantly violated during an unfair trial in 2010. The State failed to disclose evidence to their trial attorneys that the lone witness suffered from paranoid schizophrenia, heard voices, and was found to have serious memory issues. Their defense attorneys did not know that the witness was found incompetent to stand trial in a criminal case, just a few years before their arrests, that was brought by the Wyandotte County District Attorney’s Office – the same office that wrongly prosecuted Cedric and Dominic.

Your support will help Cedric re-enter society with some financial resources. His legal team at the law firm Morgan Pilate and the Midwest Innocence Project, a non-profit, worked on his case pro bono, and 100% of the funds raised here will go to him to help him rebuild. He needs our help after spending 15 years in prison for a crime he had nothing to do with.

Please consider donating if you are able. Thank you for supporting Cedric as he begins his new life.