Kim Kardashian West's Plea for Death Row Prisoner Slammed by San Bernardino D.A.

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Kim Kardashian West attends Tiffany & Co. Celebrates 2018 Tiffany Blue Book Collection, THE FOUR SEASONS OF TIFFANY at Studio 525 on October 9, 2018, in New York City. Kardashian West has advocated for new... Nicholas Hunt/Getty Images for Tiffany & Co.

Reality star Kim Kardashian West is advocating for another prisoner, Kevin Cooper.

But California law enforcement sees it as disrespectful to the murder victims. Cooper was arrested for the murder of three members of the Ryen family and a child sleeping over at the Ryen house in 1983 and sits on death row for the crimes.

In her original tweet, posted October 7, Kardashian West shared a piece published in the New York Times, which suggested that Cooper's trial was tainted by racism and that his case requires new DNA testing.

Governor Brown, please add Kevin Cooper to your legacy of smart, fair and thoughtful criminal justice reforms. https://t.co/OzhZIWdxWL

— Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) October 7, 2018

"Governor Brown, please add Kevin Cooper to your legacy of smart, fair and thoughtful criminal justice reforms," Kardashian West tweeted. Brown has not commented.

Mike Ramos, San Bernardino County D.A., answered Kardashian West's plea, but was not supportive. Ramos doesn't think they got the wrong guy, despite claims for Cooper's innocence.

"It's time that we start talking and tweeting about the victims who were brutally murdered in the sanctity of their home," Ramos told TMZ. "This latest attempt to free Kevin Cooper is nothing more than a red herring and another slap in the face of the victims and their family members who were forced to suffer a lifetime of pain."

Cooper is now 60 years old, and though there have been waves of support for DNA testing in the four murders, recent pleas to test the DNA evidence with new technology have not been met. Cooper stated he was framed, and some believe DNA testing now would prove that. "They framed me because I was framable," Cooper told the Los Angeles Times in July.

Cooper was convicted by a few pieces of evidence: a drop of blood found on the wall in the Ryen home, hand-rolled cigarettes found in a station wagon and a bloody hatchet found in the bushes outside. Cooper had a hatchet sheath in his closet. There were also footprints found at the scene, which matched Keds given to prison inmates, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Further, a drop of blood that police say was Cooper's, found on a bloody t-shirt found near the Ryen house, was shown in a test to contain a preservative found in blood samples.

The presence of the chemical led some to allege that the evidence was tampered with. The controversy meant that Cooper was saved from execution just over three hours before his scheduled death.

Kardashian West has visited President Donald Trump at the White House twice to advocate for inmates she feels should be pardoned. She was successful in convincing Trump to release inmate Alice Johnson who was serving life in prison on a non-violent drug charge.

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