Missouri Inmate Requests Release After Others Confess To 30-Year-Old Crime
The man is now requesting to be released from prison.
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The man is now requesting to be released from prison.
A trial will determine whether Lamar Johnson will be exonerated after spending 28 years in prison for a fatal shooting in 1994.
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Lamar Johnson has wrongly spent nearly three decades in prison for a St. Louis killing after a witness was coerced into falsely identifying him as the shooter, an attorney for the local prosecutor's office told a judge Monday.
Lamar Johnson has long maintained his innocence in the 1994 slaying of 25-year-old Marcus Boyd.
Lamar Johnson takes a seat in court at the start of his wrongful conviction hearing in St. Louis on Monday, Dec. 12, 2022. (David Carson/St. Louis Post-Dispatch