Out of all the Kardashian-Jenners, I think Kim would have made the best lawyer. I know that family isn’t really a deep pool of brain cells, but out of all of Robert Kardashian’s children, Kim is the one who probably should have followed in her father’s footsteps and gone to law school. She’s the one obsessively watching Dateline and assorted true-crime shows. She’s the one using her celebrity to shine a light on mandatory-minimums and prison reform. So why didn’t she go to law school? I suspect it’s because Kris Jenner had more influence than Robert Kardashian. And Kris was determined to make the whole family famous off of Kim’s ass.
Anyway, Kim is figuring out that she actually has some power to do something other than shill makeup. Kim took a personal interest in Alice Marie Johnson’s case, then personally lobbied Donald Trump for Johnson’s pardon/commutation, and it worked. A woman is now free because of Kim’s interest. So Kim is doing it again – she’s getting involved with a case/conviction of a death-row inmate.
Kim Kardashian is on another case. The reality-TV queen tweeted about the plight of San Quentin Prison death-row inmate Kevin Cooper – asking California Gov. Edmund “Jerry” Brown to retest DNA evidence in his case.
“Governor Brown, can you please test the DNA of Kevin Cooper?” Kardashian, 37, tweeted twice on Saturday, along with New York Times articles about the case. Cooper, 59, was convicted of the murders of Douglas and Peggy Ryen, their 10-year-old daughter Jessica and her friend, 10-year-old Chris Hughes, in Chino Hills, Calif., 1985. Since his conviction, Cooper has maintained his innocence and has exhausted all appeals for his conviction, according to the San Diego Tribune.
Some of Cooper’s advocates argue that the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department tampered with DNA evidence to frame Cooper and that this evidence – found on a t-shirt Cooper says he never wore — should be retested. In an op-ed on Sunday, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof wrote that the sole survivor of the murders, 8-year-old Joshua Ryen, told investigators the killers had been three or four white men – but that cops preferred to focus on Cooper instead.
Last month, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-San Francisco) also called on the governor to allow the DNA to be retested. Gov. Brown hasn’t announced his decision yet. His spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
I’m including one of Kim’s tweets below. It sounds like an interesting case. What will happen if, at some point, Kim advocates for someone who turns out to be guilty of something heinous? I mean, it does seem like Kevin Cooper’s case should be reexamined and they should definitely test the DNA, but it’s also possible that the cops do end up arresting and convicting the right people sometimes too. Will Kim get any blowback if that happens? Will cops take issue with Kim?
Also: perhaps it would be more effective to tweet @ Jerry Brown?
Governor Brown, can you please test the DNA of Kevin Cooper? https://t.co/RyDDOd9kEi
— Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) June 16, 2018
Photos courtesy of WENN.
What happened to Cyntoa’s case?
I’ll put my money behind Kamla Harris on this case. If 20 years from now, Kim’s still doing this than ok, otherwise, I know this is about image and money.
Kamala Harris denied testing on this case as attorney general. Her change is position is interesting.
There’s been NYT articles about this case just recently. Yet again, she attaches herself to a cause that’s already being supported. It’s like Cliff Notes for Justice.
I think Kim is getting involved in cases that others (innocence/advocacy groups) have been working on for years and using her celebrity to raise awareness about those individuals. I would imagine her PR people are very careful about making sure the individuals she advocates for are some of the “safer” candidates that those groups advocate on behalf of for exactly the reason you have stated. Which is fine– that’s not only smart PR but if I were doing it, for my own peace of mind I would want it to be a clear miscarriage of justice and not a “its possible that maybe the cops got it wrong here” situation.
I work at San Quentin and I “thought” that his DNA had been tested before. Perhaps my memory is failing me.
I’m glad Kim is now trying to help a person she believes is actually innocent. This, unlike the previous one, I can at least understand.
“Some of Cooper’s advocates argue that the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department tampered with DNA evidence to frame Cooper and that this evidence – found on a t-shirt Cooper says he never wore — should be retested.”
I don’t understand this, what good would retesting do?
If he never wore it, than anything found on the shirt now is irrelevant. Unless they’re testing for his DNA to establish if he’s telling the truth. I don’t get it.
As someone who works in law enforcement I can guarantee the detectives who worked this case are not happy with Kim ….she’s not catching any hate from me its an important endeavor some one needs to do it… use your celebrity to help people Kim 👏👏
I did not know that “obsessively watching Dateline and assorted true-crime shows” were clear symptoms of a career in law.
I kid, I kid…
Ha!
Don’t forget Daddy was a lawyer so she must come by It naturally…..BAH HAAHAAA!!
My guess is she is using her connections within the Law world and her resources to only engage with cases where the person in question is almost certainly not guilty.
She is many things, but not stupid enough to advocate for someone without doing (or having someone else do) the due diligence.
Yup. She did her homework on the Taylor Swift recorded call with Kanye; regardless of what any of us think, it was pretty clever to reveal it on Snapchat to protect them legally. She’s certainly doing her homework here before going public with advocacy for people convicted of murder. Go, Kim, go!!! Make your legacy something other than your ass, girl!
She was 26 when she became “famous”…so plenty of time to go to College had she wanted to. I believe she did go to community college for a year but dropped out of the “massage therapy” program. Law School is no joke. It takes A LOT of hard work and dedication. It’s not for everyone. Watching Dateline (which a lot of people do) doesn’t mean you’d make a good lawyer or would even be able to get a law degree.
She’s like legally blonde in reverse… I hope this isn’t her way into politics…
Hey if she thinks the president has so much compassion she should give him a call about the kids being separated from their parents #kimtotherescue
^^^^^THIS!^^^^^
She’s waiting for others to do all the footwork first and then she’ll jump in at the last minute and get all the credit. Our Saint Kim Kardashian to the rescue !
Totally. My rolling eyeballs are going to get stuck.
While her intentions MIGHT actually be noble…. I have NO respect for how she tries to downplay education.
I read some comments yesterday where people in California were calling BS on her claim that she can clerk for a lawyer for 3 years and pass the CA bar, which is considered the hardest in the entire nation. She really does seem to believe that because her father was a lawyer, she somehow inherited his legal expertise… and that is nothing short of laughable, and it’s also really shitty of her because whether she realizes it or not, she’s downplaying just how hard it is to become a lawyer or the sacrifice and dedication that going to law school entails.
I’m really sorry and I hope that this isn’t going too far, but when you have ALL of the means that Kim has… the money, the help (nannies, housekeepers, clout, and lets not even pretend that she actually runs her own businesses… etc) and you STILL can’t be bothered to put any work in… you’re a loser. There is nothing stopping her from going to school to be a lawyer if she feels OH SO strongly about it except for being too entitled and too lazy.
What was stopping her at 18 from going to College? Her family had the money to pay for her tuition. Instead she got married as a teen and played “housewife” and “stepmom”. She’s full of sh*t.
Whoa. She better be right on this one. But if they’re just doing a DNA test that seems like a good idea. If the sole survivor identified perps of a different race (the excerpt doesn’t specify but implies that) then something does seem amiss with this case.
–I guess it’s good she’s doing this but there’s something also very off putting about it. Sorry but it comes across the way that aging actresses start to get political to stay in the limelight. It seems like her latest “look at me” scheme.