A Missouri judge has overturned the conviction of a 50-year-old man who has served nearly 28 years of a life prison sentence for a killing that he says he didn’t commit.
ST. LOUIS (AP) A Missouri judge on Tuesday overturned the conviction of a man who has served nearly 28 years of a life sentence for a killing that he has always said he didn't commit.
Judge David Mason ruled that there was no longer clear and convincing evidence to keep Lamar Johnson in prison for a 1994 murder in St. Louis. Despite the opposition of Missouri's attorney general, Johnson will become the second person freed under a recent state law allowing prosecutors to bring innocence cases.
A Missouri judge overturned the conviction of a man who has served nearly 28 years of a life sentence for a killing that he has always said he didn’t commit.