A Georgetown law program is stepping in to help lead exoneration efforts for an 81-year-old Kansas City, Missouri, man serving life in prison for the 1990 fatal shooting of his wife. In 1991, Ken Middleton was convicted of first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the shooting death of his wife a year earlier. He was sentenced to life without parole, plus 200 years. Middleton's son said his father deserves freedom due to alleged prosecutorial misconduct and a local judge ruling two decades ago that vacated his sentence and ordered a new trial based on a series of irregularities that made his original trial unconstitutional . Despite evidence the judge cited in her motion, her ruling was overturned. Middleton has remained behind bars due to a technicality in Missouri state law that g

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