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Wrongful conviction case on potential path to trial

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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A man who has spent more than two decades in prison for a murder he claims he didn’t commit may get a new trial as early as this summer. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Cole County Circuit Court Judge Daniel Green discussed potential trial dates for Lamar Johnson at a hearing Monday in which he indicated that he was “unlikely” to grant a state motion that would deny the 47-year-old his latest bid for freedom. Green is set to rule in late February. Johnson was convicted in the 1994 killing of 25-year-old Marcus Boyd in an alleged drug dispute. St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner backs his bid for freedom. But Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt’s office has fought efforts to free Johnson.

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