A Kansas man is suing the county where he was wrongfully convicted after he served 23 years in prison for a double murder he did not commit.
Lamonte McIntyre, 45, was freed from prison in 2017 after a local prosecutor asked the court to drop charges. McIntyre’s lawsuit, filed in 2018, asks for $93 million and claims the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas, is responsible for the actions of police officers involved in his prosecution.
The civil case is set to begin on Nov. 7 in Kansas City, but the Unified Government is asking to have it moved to Wichita because of extensive media coverage, according to KCUR.
The lawsuit specifically names former Kansas City police detective Roger Golubski, who McIntyre says framed him.
McIntyre’s mother, Rose, is also seeking $30 million, claiming that Golubski coerced her into sex and framed McIntyre for a 1994 double homicide after she rejected the detective’s later advances.
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The lawsuit alleges that many police officers were aware of Golubski’s behavior, including the abuse of several black women. Pretrial orders include initials of 73 women.
Golubski has denied the allegations and asked that they be not allowed as evidence. His lawyer said that if the allegations are allowed, the former detective will argue that he was a good officer during his 35-year career, which ended in 2010 when he retired.
Should McIntyre win his civil case, the Unified Government has argued that it is not liable because the officers’ actions were outside their responsibility of employment. It also claims the police chief did not know of the alleged misconduct.
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McIntyre now lives in Arizona and has been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, suffering additional negative emotional impacts from his imprisonment. In 2020, the state of Kansas awarded him with a certificate of innocence and $1.5 million.
