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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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Ex-judges, others urge retrial for death row inmate convicted for murder of Jefferson County deputy


MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) A number of former judges and prosecutors including two previous Alabama chief justices and a state attorney general have joined those seeking a new trial for a death row inmate amid questions about his conviction more than 20 years ago.
Former Alabama Attorney General Bill Baxley, former chief justices Sonny Hornsby and Drayton Nabers and several former judges and prosecutors have submitted briefs supporting a new trial for Toforest Johnson who was convicted of the 1995 murder of a deputy sheriff.
“The petition before the Court is an extraordinary and rare situation in which the evidence of constitutional violations and Mr. Johnson’s innocence is genuinely overwhelming,” wrote attorneys representing Nabers, former Alabama Supreme Court Justice Ralph Cook and others. ....

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