Petition Delivery: Bring Lamar Johnson Home!

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Petition Delivery: Bring Lamar Johnson Home!

WHAT: Press Conference & Petition Delivery

WHO: Color Of Change, Organization for Black Struggle, Missouri NAACP, and family and friends of Lamar Johnson

WHEN: Tuesday, December 10 2019, @ 10 am - 11:30 am

WHERE: Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt Office located on 815 Olive Street, St. Louis, MO

We are taking action and delivering over 25,000 petition signatures in front of Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt's office to demand Lamar Johnson's freedom.

In 1995, Lamar Johnson was falsely accused, wrongly convicted and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. More than two decades later, St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner discovered multiple instances of prosecutorial misconduct in Lamar’s case including the bribing of the prosecution’s key eyewitness, who later recanted his testimony.²

Now as part of an effort to right the wrongs of tough-on-crimes policies, Kim Gardner has petitioned the courts to hear the evidence of innocence and grant Lamar a new trial. But Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt is BLOCKING Lamar's new trial and release. Schmitt claims that Gardner has no authority as a prosecutor to correct a miscarriage of justice and that the state technically cannot request a new trial for a defendant.

Join us in demanding AG Schmitt to defend Lamar Johnson's freedom!