The Innocence Institute of Point Park University
An investigative reporting organization that probes allegations of wrongful convictions.
Lawyers argue over admissibility of evidence in the re-trial of Terrell Johnson, who claims that he was wrongfully convicted in the 1994 murder of a Hazelwood police informant
By Marie DoRego
inn_inst@pointpark.edu
April 26, 2011
As much as she tried in 1994, Barbara Robinson told police and others she could not identify any of the men who left her daughter Verna, a would be witness in an …
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September 21, 2003
By Bill Moushey
Over the past two years, students at Point Park College examined court records, interviewed witnesses and examined the crime scene to piece together the Johnson story before their graduations. They are Point Park graduate students Fran Aiello, Bernie Bowes and Melanie Canavan, and Point Park undergraduate students Kristin Cox, Katie Lockward, April Lawson, …
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Johnson's appeal alive
Federal Circuit Court Will Hear Evidence On Whether Justice Was Served
A federal appeals court has granted a Hazelwood man the right to appeal his 1994 murder conviction on grounds that he is innocent and his trial lawyer did properly represent him.
The 3rd U.S. Court of Appeals, in a one-sentence order issued Tuesday, allowed the appeal of Terrell Johnson, 28, …
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