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“Certainly, in this case, from what I do know about it, I anticipate that self defense in some form is going to be raised by one or more of the defendants,” John Picerno, a longtime Kansas City criminal defense attorney, said during a recent interview with The Star.

John Picerno is a local criminal defense attorney. He’s not associated with the case but said even before this moment people were talking about Britt Reid’s original sentencing feeling light. “This is a very unusual case. I can’t point you to any other case where this was an outcome,” Picerno said.

She took exception to KCPD’s decision to allow one of DeValkenaere’s former supervisors — since-retired Sgt. Richard Sharp, who maintained a close relationship with DeValkenaere — to oversee the investigation. Picerno called such an arrangement “extremely troubling.” He added, “There's an inherent conflict of interest there. It's the main reason why we now have the Missouri State Highway Patrol conduct all the investigations in any kind of an officer-involved incident.”

A former Kansas City police officer has been booked into jail Tuesday after an appeals court upheld his conviction in the deadly shooting of a Black man.

An Excelsior Springs rape and kidnapping investigation has new leads after a potential witness in the case was found

John Picerno said that in his 30 years working in the legal system, he’s never seen a state attorney general

An unusual move by Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey surprised many of the people he was appointed

The Family and attorneys of Ralph Yarl, a Kansas City teen shot after ringing the wrong doorbell this spring

The Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners on Monday said allegations made by a former police department

Clay County Prosecutor Zachary Thompson spoke Monday about why no hate crime charge was filed against