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48 Hours

Lamar Johnson: Standing in Truth

48 Hours

CBS News

True Crime, News, Tv & Film, Cbs

3.97K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

A man gets his life back after spending 28 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. "48 Hours" investigates and is there as Johnson is freed in time to walk his daughter down the aisle. Correspondent Erin Moriarty reports.

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You feel like you're in a hole or sewer and you're looking up and calling out for help

1:22.2

from people and people who are walking by because they don't hear you. I don't think

1:27.6

people know how blessed they are, the baby that just hugs somebody that they love or

1:32.9

to wake up in a house with people that love you. I've happened to have the chance to do

1:39.0

that in 28 years. I'm just going to ask you, did you kill Marcus Boy?

1:45.5

I did not kill Marcus. He was like a friend of me. He was one of my best friends and I loved

1:51.3

him. In 1994 Marcus Boyd was shot in. Marcus Boyd was shot and killed.

1:55.9

And two max men ran up and shot and killed Boyd. When he pulled the trigger, I seen the

2:01.4

flash. I swear I could almost see like muscle and tendons because the flash was so big.

2:08.4

It's like an X-ray. Could you see their faces? Could you identify these men? No, I couldn't

2:16.1

identify them. He had an alibi. I was about three miles away at a friend's house. And his

2:26.1

girlfriend at the time provided that alibi. I know. For a fact, he didn't do it. He wasn't

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