Lawyer-in-training Kim Kardashian has a new cause. The Keeping Up With The Kardashians star is seeking clemency for California death row inmate Kevin Cooper. The 38-year-old reality star previously succeeding in getting relief for Alice Marie Johnson.
But not everyone is happy that Kim has taken up Cooper’s cause. The situation has attracted a bit of controversy for Kim, including criticism from the mother of one of Cooper’s alleged victims. Click through the gallery for all the info.
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Cooper was convicted of killing his neighbors, Doug and Peggy Ryen, their daughter, Jessica, and an 11-year-old boy named Christopher Hughes, in 1983. Christopher was spending the evening at the Ryens’ home.
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Kim met Cooper at the San Quentin prison in May and has been lobbying California governor Gavin Newsom for new DNA testing in the case.
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She believes the DNA might exonerate Cooper, who’s maintained his innocence and claims he was framed.
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But Mary Ann Hughes, the mother of the murdered boy, disagrees.
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“It makes me feel sick to my stomach and I pity her. For what she’s doing to us, there’s nothing to justify what she’s doing to us, the immense pain she is causing us,” she told a website.
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She doubted Kim has all the evidence. “If she actually sat down and read the transcripts of all the trials and appeals, she would be sick to her stomach to be in the same room with him,” she said. “He’s 100 percent guilty and the evidence shows it.”
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Most of Kim’s work with regards to prison reform has focused so far on non-violent offenders. Cooper’s is the first murder case she’s become involved with.
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Cooper was convicted of killing his neighbors, Doug and Peggy Ryen, their daughter, Jessica, and an 11-year-old boy named Christopher Hughes, in 1983. Christopher was spending the evening at the Ryens’ home.
Photo credit: INSTARImages
Kim met Cooper at the San Quentin prison in May and has been lobbying California governor Gavin Newsom for new DNA testing in the case.
Photo credit: INSTARImages
She believes the DNA might exonerate Cooper, who’s maintained his innocence and claims he was framed.
Photo credit: INSTARImages
But Mary Ann Hughes, the mother of the murdered boy, disagrees.
“It makes me feel sick to my stomach and I pity her. For what she’s doing to us, there’s nothing to justify what she’s doing to us, the immense pain she is causing us,” she told a website.
Photo credit: INSTARImages
She doubted Kim has all the evidence. “If she actually sat down and read the transcripts of all the trials and appeals, she would be sick to her stomach to be in the same room with him,” she said. “He’s 100 percent guilty and the evidence shows it.”
Photo credit: INSTARImages
Most of Kim’s work with regards to prison reform has focused so far on non-violent offenders. Cooper’s is the first murder case she’s become involved with.
Photo credit: INSTARImages
