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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Six days after a judge declared him a free man, Lamar Johnson told members of a Senate panel Monday that the state must compensate people who
In 1995, Johnson’s life changed forever. He was convicted of murdering his friend Markus Boyd and sentenced to life in prison. A crime he did not commit.
Ricky Kidd. Carrody Buchhorn. Keith Carnes. Floyd Bledsoe. Kevin Strickland. Lamonte McIntyre. Olin “Pete” Coones Jr. Missouri or Kansas threw all of them behind bars — many of them for
A Missouri man who has been serving a life sentence for nearly three decades was set free after a judge ruled he is innocent and vacated his murder conviction.
Lamar Johnson, who spent the last 27 years in prison for murder, walked free after a judge declared his innocence and vacated his conviction.