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Lamar Johnson denies role in killing that led to life term

David Bruns, the public defender who represented Lamar Johnson during his trial in 1995, gives testimony during the third day of Johnson's wrongful conviction hearing in St. Louis on Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022. (David Carson/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP, Pool) CORRECTS LAST NAME TO HOWARD, NOT JOHNSON. - James "BA" Howard gives testimony that it was him that shot Marcus Boyd in 1994 and that Lamar Johnson was not even present at the scene of the crime during Johnson's wrongful conviction hearing in St. Louis, Monday, Dec. 12, 2022. (David Carson/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP, Pool) Lamar Johnson listens to testimony during the second day of his wrongful conviction hearing in St. Louis, Mo., on Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022. (David Carson/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP, Pool) Former prosecutor Dwight Warren, right, testifies on the second day of Lamar Johnson's wrongful conviction hearing in St. Louis on Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022. Warren was the prosecutor in Johnson's 1994 case. (David Carson/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP, Pool) Attorney Jonathan Potts questions James "BA" Howard about the events on the night that Howard says he shot Marcus Boyd during a wrongful conviction hearing for Lamar Johnson in St. Louis, Monday, Dec. 12, 2022. (David Carson/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP, Pool) Greg Elking, who was a witness to the murder of Marcus Boyd in 1994, gives testimony that he was pressured by police to identify Lamar Johnson as the murder suspect during Johnson's wrongful conviction hearing in St. Louis, Monday, Dec. 12, 2022. (David Carson/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP, Pool)
Lamar Johnson denies role in killing that led to life term