Posted on 11/26/2014 4:51:26 PM PST by doug from upland
JEFFERSON CITY, MO (KTVI) – We’re looking deeper into the criminal cases against a witness in the Michael Brown shooting.
Dorian Johnson pleaded guilty to lying to police in a 2011 theft case and a warrant still remains for his arrest. FOX2’s Chris Hayes went to Jefferson City to talk to a man who says he caught Johnson stealing and then listened to his repeated lies.
It started behind the Jefferson City YMCA, where Kelly Lewis, a maintenance man said he saw someone, later identified as Dorian Johnson, carrying a FedEx box from a nearby apartment complex.
“He picked the package up off D section, which I knew the lady that lived there, so I knew it wasn’t his package,” Lewis said.
Lewis said he followed and called police as he watched Johnson dump the box behind the YMCA.
A Jefferson City police report documents 19-year-old Dorian Johnson saying his “name was Derrick,” then claiming “he was 16.” Police said he then gave a “date of birth” which “would mean he was 17″ and told police “he had no identification.”
Lewis remembered, “He never told them the truth,” and described watching the runaround for about one hour.
“I looked down at his sock. I remember that’s where people carry IDs,” Lewis said. “I told the police officer that. I said I think his ID is in his sock, so the police officer checked it. He got out his ID and found out who he was.”
The Lincoln University student ID reportedly read “Dorian J. Johnson,” but the police report states Johnson said he was holding the ID card for someone else.
“To me it was a just a petty little thing that if he would’ve just stood up and told the truth, it would’ve been over,” Lewis said.
The police report shows it continued at the jail where Johnson signed a court summons with his false name “Derrick.” Then a Lincoln University police officer reportedly walked in the room. The report states, “Due to previous contacts with Johnson, he immediately recognized him as Dorian J. Johnson.”
Johnson pleaded guilty to making false statements. The theft case remains open with an active arrest warrant for failing to appear.
Johnson’s attorney, Freeman Bosley Jr., declined to respond on camera, but wrote that his client’s reported deception has “..nothing to do with a police officer shooting an unarmed man six times, two times in the head. This is called using excessive force.”
Bosley Jr. added that he’s filed an appearance on behalf of Johnson in Jefferson City, asking for a Judge to recall the arrest warrant.
It’s unclear if this could impact the Michael Brown shooting investigation. Other witnesses, including Piaget Crenshaw, also described Brown putting his hands up before a Ferguson officer shot him.
One unnamed witness, overheard in a YouTube video, appears to describe Brown coming towards the officer during the shooting. Since it appears nothing was captured on camera, jurors will be relying solely on who they believe, along with the physical evidence.
Johnson’s Attorney, Freeman Bosley, Jr., currently has his law license suspended indefinitely for using client trust money to pay personal expenses. The stories write themselves sometimes!
Thanks for that heads up.
Tuesday, September 30, 2014 3:08 pm
The Missouri Supreme Court suspended the law license of former St. Louis Mayor Freeman Bosley Jr. for mishandling clients’ money.
The court order Tuesday allows Bosley to apply in six months for his license to be reinstated.
The court found Bosley violated attorney rules regarding conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation and regarding diligence. It further determined he violated rules regarding the commingling of funds, failure to keep proper records, depositing personal funds into a trust account exceeding the value of bank charges and failure to properly deliver client funds.
I am thinking that in this case, there are many people who couldn’t tell the truth if their lives depended on it.
but yet, all over MSNBC
This guy is a marked man. In troube with the police. Knows he’s finished on the streets if he tells the truth about St. Michael the Thug so he has to lie. Yeah, none of us would want to be in his shoes.
Am I correct in assuming that this Dorian Johnson gave testimony that was to be damaging to Wilson?
SO.... the guy who lies and steals has a lawyer who lies and steals ?
Are you referring to Johnson, Bosley, or both?
I’m thinking “both”.
btt
You sure that they are his shoes and not shoes he stole from someone else who bought them?
Liberals prefer to believe perjurers and liars over an honest, decent man.
That says a lot more about them than it does about Darren Wilson.
One of the things we’ve lost in this country is a respect for the truth.
Good one, lol....Whoever’s shoes they belong to you and I certainly wouldn’t want to be in them.
I'd bet there is something in Alinsky's rules about that.
Truth is always the enemy of the Left.
:D /bow
This is a microcosm of a huge issue. Everything is bared in the open on the table. Who do you trust?
We have a psychopathic liar in the White House. Who has psychopathic on his staff? Who are the liars in Ferguson?
I’m thinking “both”
Well, I am thinking both too, but I am also thinking of millions of other POS libtards who are utterly incapable of doing anything right. They are breathing perfectly good air, that could be put to better use.
Darren Wilson should join Sandra Fluke on DNC fundraisers.
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