Lamar Johnson is just the second person to be released with the help of a 2021 state law that allows prosecutors to consider new evidence. Here’s what the cases of those freed so far with the law — and those who haven’t — have in common.

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St. Louis City Circuit Court Judge David C. Mason set aside Lamar Johnson’s murder conviction.

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Less than two years after state lawmakers created a procedure for prosecutors to undo wrongful convictions, the Missouri Supreme Court is confronting questions that the statute’s language doesn’t clearly answer.

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The judge presiding over a hearing to determine if a Missouri man’s murder conviction should be overturned questioned on Friday if police and prosecutors “were in a little bit of a rush” to convict Lamar Johnson.

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St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner on Friday accused Missouri's attorney general of seeking sanctions against her “because he has no case” in his effort to keep Lamar Johnson in prison for a murder that Johnson has long contended he had nothing to do with.

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St. Louis' top prosecutor filed a motion asking a judge to vacate the conviction that sent a man to prison nearly 30 years ago for a murder he has long claimed he didn't commit.

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A southeastern Missouri city has agreed to an $8 million settlement in a lawsuit filed by a man who spent 17 years in prison for murder before the state Supreme Court overturned his conviction. Jonathan Douglass, the city manager of ...

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Missouri Supreme Court judges convened a remote court hearing Tuesday to hear arguments over whether to grant a new trial for a man who has spent more than two decades in prison for a murder he and the St. Louis ...

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The Court of Appeals Eastern District says it doesn’t have the power to let Lamar Johnson’s case be reopened, but perhaps the Missouri Supreme Court can. The appeals court on Dec. 24 dismissed an appeal seeking a new trial for ...

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Where an inmate challenged the dismissal of his action for deprivation of rights, arguing that he was wrongfully convicted of sex offenses in state court, the inmate failed to state a claim because he was required to allege a violation ...

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The Court of Appeals Western District on Dec. 10 affirmed a $5.35 million judgment for a man wrongfully convicted of killing a newspaper editor in Columbia. Ryan Ferguson spent a decade in prison for the 2001 murder of Columbia Daily ...

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