Missouri judge vacates Lamar Johnson's murder conviction
An investigation into Johnson's conviction found prosecutorial misconduct, and two other men have confessed to the crime.
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An investigation into Johnson's conviction found prosecutorial misconduct, and two other men have confessed to the crime.
Lamar Johnson's conviction was thrown out for the 1994 murder of Marcus Boyd.
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Judge David Mason ruled that there was no longer clear and convincing evidence to keep Lamar Johnson in prison for a 1994 murder in St. Louis. Despite the opposition of Missouri's attorney general, Johnson will become the second person freed under a recent state law allowing prosecutors to bring innocence cases.
Lamar Johnson’s case inspired a new state law for retrials.