A hearing begins Monday in a case that will decide if the conviction should be overturned of a Missouri man who's spent nearly 30 years in prison for a murder that two other people later confessed to committing.
This booking photo provided by the Missouri Department of Corrections shows Lamar Johnson.— A hearing begins Monday in a case that will decide if the conviction should be overturned of a Missouri man who's spent nearly three decades in prison for a murder that two other people later confessed to committing.
he's confident about the hearing because"I believe in God. I believe that he had a purpose for me other than to spend the rest of my life in prison. ... I think you can lie, you can deny, you can hide the truth, but eventually it's going to find a way. ... I'm comforted in that."Johnson was convicted in 1995 of fatally shooting Boyd over a $40 drug debt and received a life sentence.
Gardner launched an investigation in collaboration with lawyers at the Midwest Innocence Project. Their investigation found misconduct by a prosecutor, falsified police reports and perjured testimony.Last week, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt asked the court to sanction Gardner, accusing her of concealing evidence.
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