Prosecutor in Lamar Johnson case defends his actions


              CORRECTS LAST NAME TO HOWARD, NOT JOHNSON -James "BA" Howard steps down from the stand after giving testimony that it was he who 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)
            
              Anthony Box, center, formerly with the  St. Louis Circuit Attorney's Conviction Integrity Unit, looks at evidence of payments to witness Greg Elking in 1994 as Missouri assistant attorney general Miranda Loesch, right, questions the evidence during testimony on the second day of Lamar Johnson's wrongful conviction hearing in St. Louis on Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022. Circuit Court Judge David Mason, left, presides over the hearing.(David Carson/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP, Pool)
Prosecutor in Lamar Johnson case defends his actions