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A crooked prosecutor from Kansas temporarily handed over her law license following a damning probe from the Department of Justice that revealed she intentionally sent a Black man to prison for no reason.

Since 1989, over 1,200 Black people were exonerated of crimes they were wrongfully convicted, thanks to a series of factors including good ol’ prosecutorial misconduct, per the National Registry of Exonerations.

One victim of that prosecutorial misconduct was Lamonte McIntrye, a Black man who was just 17 years old when he was framed for a 1994 double murder by now-retired Wyandotte County Assistant Terra Morehead and the notoriously corrupt Kansas City detective, Roger Golubski.

Morehead nearly made her career out of putting McIntyre in prison until the dirt from underneath the rug got swept up when McIntyre was released from prison in 2017.

Investigations into his case revealed Morehead had a romantic fling with the trial judge and also coerced a star witness into making a false testimony against McIntyre which determined the tragic outcome of his case, according to KSHB 41 News.

After being thrown in the hot seat following a series of legal complaints, Morehead chose to turn over her law license.

Read more about the complaints from KSHB:

In the first case, a federal judge vacated criminal convictions and dismissed the indictment with prejudice after the district court judge concluded Morehead violated the defendant’s Sixth Amendment rights.

Had the case gone to a formal hearing, the ODA would have ruled Morehead’s conduct to be in violation of several state rules of professional conduct.

In the second case, Morehead faced sentencing from a federal judge due to misconduct.

If the complaint moved forward, the ODA would have found the attorney was in violation of several state rules of professional conduct, including knowingly making a false statement of fact to a tribunal and engaging in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation.

“I can’t believe 2017 was 7 years. Also why isn’t she going to jail?” wrote one social media commentator under a post by former The Root writer Michael Harriot, who helped crack the story about Morehead.

Good question!

The report says the Kansas Supreme Court has plans to issue an order for Morehead’s disbarment, kicking her out the courtroom for good. Granted this comes 30 years after this woman potentially ruined even more lives in her merciless game, this news came as a relief to McIntyre.

“Initially, I was excited because it’s so many people I hear from all the time saying, ‘What’s gonna happen with the district attorney?’” McIntyre told reporters. “This is closure for me because I know she can’t do that to nobody else.”