Much diligent work by the NAACP North Carolina State Conference
continues to produce significant results. Prosecutors announced
yesterday that James Johnson, 21, will not face murder charges in
connection with the death of a white, female classmate following their
graduation from a high school in Wilson in 2004. Yet an accessory
charge remains.
Johnson spent more than three years in a North Carolina jail awaiting
trial. No physical evidence ties Johnson to the crime and two DNA tests
clear him in the death. He provided information to the police to help
identify the killer and locate the victim, yet he was penalized.
YET he was penalized.
The state conference's work led to Johnson's release on bond in October
and reassignment of the case to the Administrative Office of Courts,
supervised by Chief Justice Sarah Parker of the state's Supreme Court.
The man who implicated Johnson in the death has since recanted and is
serving a life sentence for the murder.
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