The Oregon Innocence Project on Wednesday accused the state of committing a 'heinous injustice' in its handling of the case.
Video shot outside the jail Tuesday showed Johnson, smiling and wearing gray sweats with white socks and black slides, walking next to a sheriff's deputy who was pushing a cart with belongings inside."I'm happy and excited and ready for the next phase now. Been a lot of years for something I didn't do," Johnson said,While Johnson had been sentenced to death after he was convicted in 2004, former Gov. John Kitzhaber declared a moratorium on executions in 2011.
That neighbor was Patricia Hubbard, but Johnson's trial lawyers didn't seek her out. Hubbard told investigators - who contacted her only after Johnson was convicted - she had seen a white man park his van in Thompson's driveway around 3:45 a.m. March 20, 1998, and go inside. "For 25 years, the State of Oregon has fought to defend their deeply flawed case against our former client, Jesse Johnson," Wax said in a statement."There can be no more heinous injustice imaginable than for Mr. Johnson to have heard a sentence of death pronounced against him all those years ago in Marion County and to then waste away for years on death row."
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