{"id":1848484,"date":"2023-02-15T13:07:44","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T18:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1848484"},"modified":"2023-02-15T13:08:08","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T18:08:08","slug":"he-spent-nearly-28-years-in-prison-for-a-murder-he-didnt-commit-his-sentence-was-just-vacated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/he-spent-nearly-28-years-in-prison-for-a-murder-he-didnt-commit-his-sentence-was-just-vacated\/","title":{"rendered":"He Spent Nearly 28 Years In Prison For A Murder He Didn\u2019t Commit. His Sentence Was Just Vacated."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhe-spent-nearly-28-years-in-prison-for-a-murder-he-didnt-commit-his-sentence-was-just-vacated%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1848484&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/missouri\">Missouri<\/a> A man who spent 28 years in prison has his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/murder\">Murder<\/a> Convictionhttps:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/wrongful-conviction&#8221;>overturned<\/a> Tuesday<\/p>\n<p>Lamar Johnson, 50 was convicted in the Oct 1994 murder of Marcus Boyd. Boyd had been killed by two masked men on his front porch. <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/wrongful-conviction-vacated-3eb7e5fbe6210dbc38b11995902b9947\">reported<\/a>. Johnson was convicted for murder and sentenced at the maximum to life in prison. Phil Campbell, another suspect, pleaded guilty to lesser charges and was only sentenced to seven years.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson, however, maintained that he was miles from the shooting with the girlfriend. Johnson said that he was only five minutes from her to sell drugs on the street corner.<\/p>\n<p>Erika Barrow, his girlfriend at the time was a supporter of his story. She said it would have been impossible for him to get to Boyd\u2019s home from the friend\u2019s house where they were staying when the murder occurred in the time it took him to step outside for the drug sale.<\/p>\n<p>Helping Johnson\u2019s case was the fact that a witness recanted their testimony and another prison inmate admitted to the killing. James Howard, 46, is already in prison for murder and other crimes committed years after Boyd\u2019s death. He testified at Johnson\u2019s hearing that he had committed Boyd\u2019s murder with Campbell and that Johnson wasn\u2019t present.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t the first time Howard admitted to committing the murder. He and Campbell previously had signed affidavits admitting to the crime and swearing Johnson wasn\u2019t with them, the AP reported.<\/p>\n<p>A witness during the original investigation, James Gregory Elking, said he was on the porch with Boyd when he was shot but couldn\u2019t identify the gunmen. Elking testified in December that he agreed to a police lineup, but when he couldn\u2019t identify a suspect, police detective Joseph Nickerson told him: \u201cI know you know who it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elking said that he felt the same. \u201cbullied\u201d And \u201cpressured\u201d Johnson was reportedly interested in naming someone. Elking was reported to have been paid $4,000 for his testimony.<\/p>\n<p>Nickerson denied any pressure was put on Elking, testifying in December that the witness\u2019 identification of Johnson was based on his eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Circuit Judge David Mason, with this and other evidence, ruled Tuesday \u201creliable evidence of actual innocence \u2014 evidence so reliable that it actually passes the standard of clear and convincing\u201d was needed to overturn Johnson\u2019s conviction and that the bar had been met.<\/p>\n<p>St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner\u2019s office had conducted the investigation, along with the Innocence Project, into whether Johnson was innocent of the murder.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile today brings joy, nothing can restore all that the state stole from him. Nothing will give him back the nearly three decades he lost while separated from his daughters and family,\u201d Johnson\u2019s attorneys said after the ruling. \u201cThe evidence that proved his innocence was available at his trial, but it was kept hidden or ignored by those who saw no value in the lives of two young black men from the South Side.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Missouri Attorney General\u2019s office opposed Johnson\u2019s release, but didn\u2019t challenge it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Missouri man who has spent the past 28 years in prison had his murder conviction overturned on Tuesday. Lamar Johnson, 50, was convicted of the October 1994 murder of Marcus Boyd, who had been shot and killed on his front porch by two masked men, the Associated Press reported. 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