Entries tagged with “Dennis Perry”
Policy Issues
Innocence
,Jul 29, 2021
DNA Exonerates Georgia Man Who Had Waived His Appeals to Avoid Wrongful Execution
When Dennis Perry stood with his defense team on the steps of the Brunswick, Georgia courthouse (pictured) after a trial judge dismissed all charges against him, he was a free man, exonerated of the racially motivated murders of a deacon and his wife in a local Black church in 1985. His case was one of at least four death-penalty prosecutions involving misconduct by Brunswick Judicial Circuit Assistant District Attorney John B. Johnson III.
Policy Issues
Prosecutorial Accountability
,Jul 31, 2020
Investigation Exposes History of Misconduct by Leading South Georgia Homicide Prosecutor in Death Penalty Cases
A prominent South Georgia prosecutor, lauded for his success in capital prosecutions, has a history of misconduct in those cases, an Atlanta Journal-Constitution investigative report has disclosed. Longtime Brunswick Judicial Circuit Assistant District Attorney John B. Johnson III, who joined the five-county prosecutor’s office in 1977, “has a dark legacy of problem cases,” the paper reports, including repeatedly withholding evidence from the defense…