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Many Flatwood residents are older, live on fixed incomes, and didnt have insurance. United Way is raising money to help replace lost homes.

Lamar Johnson was convicted for the murder of Marcus Boyd.

Judge David Mason says he’ll hold a hearing to announce his decision but has not yet set a date.

St. Louis Judge David Mason says he'll hold a hearing to announce his decision in the Lamar Johnson innocence case but has not yet set a date.

Lamar Johnson has waited 27 years for a chance to have his conviction overturned. He now must wait on a decision from St. Louis Circuit Court Judge David Mason that

The judge presiding over a hearing to determine if a Missouri man's murder conviction should be overturned questioned on Friday if police and prosecutors "were in a little bit of a rush" to convict Lamar Johnson.

The judge presiding over Lamar Johnson's exoneration hearing questioned on Friday if police and prosecutors were in a rush to convict him.

St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner is trying to vacate Johnson’s 1995 murder conviction, a crime that Johnson has long held he did not commit. But she’s facing pushback from the attorney general’s office.

This week was the first time in court that Johnson was able to say in his own words why his 1995 conviction for the murder of his friend Marcus Boyd should be set aside. The only eyewitness in the original case recanted his testimony, while a convicted murderer serving a life sentence testified that he, not Johnson, killed Boyd.

A Missouri man seeking freedom after nearly three decades in prison for a murder he denies committing testified Thursday he was with his girlfriend on the night of the crime, except for a few minutes when he stepped outside to sell drugs on a corner several blocks from where the victim was killed.