$5,000. johnson s legal representation works against him as well. according to the washington post, johnson s attorney who admitted in a court filing that he lacked the necessary experience for a capital case. the lawyer wrote, the defendants attorney does not have the expertise in criminal investigation worked investigate the facts and interviewed the witnesses surrounding the alleged crime with which the defendant is charged. the defendants attorney has no former shining in criminal investigation, nor do they have the capabilities and time to interview all of the potential witnesses and conduct all of the investigation necessary and essential to provide the defendant with an adequate defense. and the quote. no experience, no training, no time to investigate. it trifecta of trial disaster. the court later agreed to give him a private investigator. they only provided funds for someone, well, someone no one would want. johnson s current lawyer
is described as, quote, a brain damage, alcoholic, racist, suicidal, homeless men who had already been fired from at least one capital case from incompetence, have been operating without a business base license for at least five, years and could barely manage his own day to day affairs. end quote. perfect guy for the job. now that all of this information about this botched case come to light, numerous people want this justice for toforest johnson. former chief justice of the alabama supreme court, he has come out against the case. he asks quote, why is toforest johnson still on alabama s death row? overtime, the state s case has fallen apart, and there is no substantial evidence that mr. johnson is innocent. the district attorney in birmingham believe the lead prosecutor from mr. johnson s 1998 case supports a new trial. the former attorney general has also come out against his conviction in an op-ed for the
working as a security guard at a hotel in birmingham, alabama. police were determined to crack this case. apparently, at any cost. they arrested five men in connection to the murder, in 1998, they wound up convicting this man, deforest johnson, he was sentenced to death and he s been on death row for more than 20 years. but he says he did not do it. that he did not commit this crime. and he has been outspoken about his innocence for all these years while sitting on death row. now, more than 20 years later, some of the former judges, prosecutors, and the jurors, who convicted him, are agreeing with him. they also say he did not do it, or at least he deserves another chance, to defend himself. the story of how this happened shows a multi-engine failure in our criminal justice system, one that we have seen too many times before. in mississippi, with curtis flowers and sabrina smith and so many others across the 27
johnson, the attorney general could drop the case, but so far they have not. why? what is the holdup? the reporter who helped bring this case to national attention joins us after the break. break. are protected in like 3 minutes. it s time to protect your life online with aura s all-in-one digital security. try for free today at aura.com what was that password anyway? ew. for copd, ask your doctor about breztri. breztri gives you better breathing, symptom improvement, and helps prevent flare-ups.
the officer. he refused. he told his attorney quote, i see where they won t charge me if i say he did it. if that were the truth, i with say it in a heartbeat but i am not lying for anybody, including the cops. agrgus ford s trial went in a hung jurl and johnson s story went on and that story of the witness who told 300 lies wasn t the worst of it. johnson was eventually sentenced to death after a laughbly poor case. as a former chief justice of the state supreme court put it in an op-ed, quote, there was no physical evidence, no eyewitness testimony, no police confession, the state s case relied entirely on a woman who said she overheard a three-way jail phone call in which a man who referred to himself as toforest admitted to the crime. the woman had never met mr. johnson, and she didn t know his voice. but her testimony was enough for the jury to convict. turns out the woman was paid