KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker on Monday said her office will fight to uphold the conviction of Eric DeValkenaere, a Kansas City police officer convicted of manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a Black man in 2019.
Baker said Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey filed a motion with the Missouri Court of Appeals seeking to overturn the conviction — a step unheard of in the legal community as the office is known to seek to uphold every conviction won in lower courts.
Baker, whose office filed its own motion on the case earlier this month, said her office will “keep fighting” to uphold the court’s decision if Bailey will not.
