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Alabama Court Hears Appeal in Toforest Johnson Death Row Case


Alabama Court Hears Appeal in Toforest Johnson Death Row Case
Toforest Johnson. (Source: Beth Shelburne)
By Beth Shelburne | April 14, 2021 at 3:23 PM CDT - Updated April 14 at 3:23 PM
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - Lawyers for Toforest Johnson, a man on Alabama’s death row, argued in the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals Tuesday that Johnson should receive a new trial because the prosecution failed to disclose evidence favorable to the defense at trial.
“Toforest Johnson is on death row based on a conviction that involved no physical evidence linking him to the crime, no eyewitnesses, and no confession to the police,” argued Katherine Moss, an attorney with the Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta. ....

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Former Alabama AG and Chief Justice Support New Trial in Death Row Case


By Beth Shelburne
www.wbrc.com
Former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Drayton Nabers, Jr. and former Alabama Attorney General Bill Baxley have joined District Attorney Danny Carr’s call for a Jefferson County court to throw out the conviction of Toforest Johnson, an Alabama man facing the death penalty.
Baxley and Nabers were two of several dozen former prosecutors, retired judges, religious leaders, defense attorneys and legal scholars who filed briefs Tuesday asking Circuit Judge Teresa Pulliam to overturn Johnson’s murder conviction and grant him a new trial. Johnson has always maintained that he is innocent of the 1995 murder of William G. Hardy, a Jefferson County Sheriff’s Deputy. ....

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