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Oxnard man s murder conviction expected to be overturned next week
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arrow George Bell was released from prison last month after a Queens judge vacated his conviction due to prosecutorial misconduct. Scott Heins / Gothamist
They came up at a time when prosecutors were expected to be tough, and this was one of the toughest offices around: Queens under District Attorney Richard Brown. Back then, Queens prosecutors made sure to back their brothers in blue and they did a betterjoblocking up the bad guys than anyone else in the city. And if some idealistic judge decided Brown’s rank-and-file were a little overzealous in their pursuit of justice and ordered a new trial? So be it. They could always try again. Discipline was almost never called for.
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/ Jamala Rogers, far left, executive director of the Organization for Black Struggle, delivers petitions supporting a new trial for Lamar Johnson to Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt in 2019.
Last week, the Missouri Supreme Court dealt another blow to advocates seeking to free Lamar Johnson from prison. The St. Louis man has served 26 years for a murder that the St. Louis Circuit Attorney whose office originally prosecuted the case now says he didn’t commit.
But the prosecutor’s office and advocates alike have been stymied by legal procedure. The Supreme Court on March 2 unanimously affirmed a lower court ruling that Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner does not have the right to motion for a new trial. The request, its decision affirmed, came decades too late.