Matthew Limon: Still in jail unjustly
Matthew Limon remains a prisoner at the Ellsworth Correctional Facility in Kansas. He was sentenced to seventeen years for a crime that would have cost a heterosexual just fifteen months. His cell has been deluged with postcards and letters addressed to Inmate 70713. He's spent the past three and a half years playing the piano with the prison church choir. And waiting. Limon will turn 22 in February, but he has the mental capacity of a sixth-grader. Four years ago, in February 2000, Limon and another teenager were residents at the Lakemary Center for people with developmental disabilities in Paola, Kansas. Limon had just turned eighteen, and the other boy, identified in court filings only as M.A.R., was almost fifteen when Limon performed oral sex on him. M.A.R. told authorities that the act was consensual, a statement that has never been disputed. The Pitch takes an in-depth and lengthy look at the case.
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