wonderful. wonderful. thank you, sir. reporter: as the barnes family sees it, this puts away the man who killed phylicia and dumped her body in the susquehanna. johnson could get up to 30 years but was spared life. the case against johnson was largely circumstantial and felt the jury might need the lesser charge of second-degree murder. we often bring changes in which we charge first and second-degree murder. jurors evaluate the evidence and make a determination on the appropriate result. reporter: the defense believed all along the state never had the evidence linking johnson to the murder or disposing phylicia s body. all it had about blue totes and text messages, one the defense did not think the jury would by. james mccray testified he saw the body of phylicia barnes in johnson s bod apartment. the defense said the story was too consistent to believe. mccray was a late addition in the state s case, contacting police from jail four months after it had already indi
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