“”Johnson maintained his innocence from the beginning, citing his girlfriend as an alibi, and claimed he was with her miles away when the crime was committed.
Johnson also stated that he stepped outside for a few minutes to sell drugs on a corner several blocks from where the victim was killed, as reported by AP News.””
Well, blocks and miles are a little different and if you give conflicting statements to the police on record they tend to look harder at you. As far as maintaining your innocence all that time the guy who robbed me swore even after he was sent to jail that he was innocent even with clear video evidence. Jails are full of innocent people, just ask them.
What evidence did they even have against him other than circumstantial, that is what I want to know to take 30 years of his life like that.
Ya can’t make this up. Eye witness identified him, even though shooter wore masks and could only see eyes. Any reasonable jury would have found that dubious, at least one of them.
Either they lied then, or they're lying now. Same result, the prime witness is a proven liar.
Exactly. To do something like that to someone, you need to be *CERTAIN*, not "I think he might have done it."
No. Absolute proof should be required to take a man's life away.