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As he languished in a Missouri prison for nearly three decades, Lamar Johnson never stopped fighting to prove his innocence, even when it meant doing much of the legal work himself

(ST. LOUIS) -- After serving nearly three decades of a life sentence, Lamar Johnson officially walks free for a crime he has always insisted he did not commit. “This is unbelievable,” he told reporters in the courthouse lobby after the conviction was overturned. On Tuesday, Missouri Circuit Judge David Mason vacated Johnson’s sentence, stating that

After serving nearly three decades of a life sentence, Lamar Johnson officially walks free for a crime he has always insisted he did not commit.

ST. LOUIS—A Missouri judge on Tuesday overturned the conviction of a man who has served nearly 28 years ...

(ST. LOUIS) -- After serving nearly three decades of a life sentence, Lamar Johnson officially walks free for a crime he has always insisted he did not commit.

A GoFundMe set up by The Midwest Innocence Project for the recently released Lamar Johnson nears its financial goal.

A Missouri man wrongly convicted of murder has finally walked free after serving nearly 28 years in prison after a judge declared him innocent.

Lamar Johnson was freed from prison after a Missouri judge found there was clear and convincing evidence he did not murder Marcus Boyd in 1994. But since DNA evidence wasn’t used to set aside his conviction, Johnson is not eligible for state restitution.

The murder conviction of a Missouri man, who has already served almost 28 years of a life sentence, was overturned by a judge.

A 2021 Missouri law that allows prosecutors to ask courts to set aside wrongful convictions has resulted in the exoneration of a man who spent 28 years in prison for murder.