The following petition is addressed to the U.S. Department of Justice and the Community Integrity Unit established under the current Wyandotte County District Attorney’s Office.

Terra Morehead is an assistant U.S. Attorney for the state of Kansas. She was a Wyandotte County prosecutor from 1986 to early 2000s. She prosecuted a significant number of cases involving serious crimes. During her career as a prosecutor in Wyandotte County she was in a romantic relationship from 1990 to 1991 with Wyandotte County judge, Hon. J. Dexter Burdette, who ruled over many of her cases. Although this information is widely known throughout the Unified Government of Wyandotte County/KCK and the local legal community, there has never been an investigation or judicial review of these facts.

Terra Morehead’s continuous misconduct has led to numerous overturned convictions and her removal from over 20 criminal cases. She has been cited multiple times for failing to present critical evidence, using false statements; threatening witnesses, and consistently abusing her prosecutorial power.

The depth of the impact of Terra Morehead’s behavior and the oversight of the Unified Government of Wyandotte County/KCK is unknown but it is felt across many generations of Wyandotte County residents.

As a KCK resident, we call on the U.S. Department of Justice and the Community Integrity Unit under the current Wyandotte County District Attorney’s Office to fully review all cases prosecuted in Wyandotte County by Terra Morehead with special attention to cases tried during her romantic relationship with Hon. Judge J. Dexter Burdette.

We do not assert anyone’s innocence. We believe all people have a human right to fair justice under the law.

You can view a full list of concerning cases prosecuted by Terra Morehead and learn more about prosecutorial misconduct at www.justiceforwyandotte.org

Quotes regarding Terra Morehead:

“This misconduct on the part of the prosecution was unlawful, and infected this case so much that it seriously affected the fairness, integrity or public reputation of judicial proceedings... In accepting the new sentencing terms, Percival agreed to forgo his claims of prosecutorial misconduct against Morehead.”
- Trent Percival’s motion to vacate his sentence, which was later reduced by half

“This prosecutor has a terrible reputation for truthfulness, has a terrible reputation for doing the right thing. I've never really seen that before, where a person in the office talking about a current employee says such things about that employee's conduct that the employees conduct is so horrendously bad, and yet, that prosecutor is still a prosecutor!”
- Bennet Gershman, a nationwide expert of prosecutorial misconduct.

“The prosecutor who tried this case failed to conduct herself as a prosecutor must.”

- U.S. District Court Judge Daniel Crabtree regarding Terra Morehead