Innocence
,Prosecutorial Accountability
,New Voices
,May 18, 2022
Ignoring entreaties from judges, prosecutors, and state bar presidents, the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals has denied a new trial to death-row prisoner Toforest Johnson. On May 6, 2022, the state appeal…
Innocence
,Prosecutorial Accountability
,Apr 19, 2023
On April 17, 2023, lawyers for Toforest Johnson (pictured, center), who has spent 25 years on Alabama’s death row, filed a petition for a writ of certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court requesting a new trial. The petition was buttressed by support f…
Innocence
,Prosecutorial Accountability
,Mar 23, 2020
A Birmingham judge has denied a new trial to Alabama death-row prisoner Toforest Johnson (pictured, center), saying he had not proven his claim that his conviction and death sentence for the killing of a sheriff’s deputy in 1995 were the product o…
Innocence
,Jun 15, 2020
Jefferson County District Attorney Danny Carr has filed an amicus brief supporting the grant of a new trial to Toforest Johnson (pictured, center, with family members), sentenced to death for the murder of an
Innocence
,Prosecutorial Accountability
,Aug 02, 2022
The innocence case of Alabama death-row prisoner Toforest Johnson (pictured, center) has drawn substantial support from former judges, jurors, prosecutors, and state bar presidents, but disinterest by current Ala…
Innocence
,Prosecutorial Accountability
,Mar 17, 2021
More than a dozen former Alabama prosecutors, judges, and state bar presidents have filed briefs in a Birmingham court calling for a new trial for Alabama death-row prisoner Toforest Johnson (pictured, center, wit…
Innocence
,Prosecutorial Accountability
,Aug 30, 2021
Three members of the jury who voted to convict and sentence Toforest Johnson (pictured, center) to death in his capital trial in Birmingham in 1998 are now urging Alabama’s courts to grant him a n…
Innocence
,Prosecutorial Accountability
,United States Supreme Court
,Oct 02, 2023
On October 2, the first day of its new term, the Supreme Court denied review in two high-profile death penalty cases:
Innocence
,Prosecutorial Accountability
,Dec 20, 2019
Alabama sentenced Toforest Johnson to death, his lawyers and national experts say, because of prosecutorial misconduct, false eyewitness testimony, and inadequate representation. In an
