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I have to imagine that when the powers that be tapped, detective sergeant Roland Lamy

to pick up the Sharon Johnson case, after six futile months in the hands of other investigators,

they never imagined that they'd be in the position that they found themselves in in February

of 1992, having dropped charges against their prime suspect Ken Johnson, having lost

the case against his co-conspirator, Tony Puff, and now down to their last chance to

convict someone for Sharon's murder. When the jury was led out of Tony's trial, his

attorneys conducted a post-equital interview, and they found that the jury didn't buy

the confessions at all, none of them, which voted well for Jason. And of course, it also

worked in his favor, as it did for the other two defendants, but neither Ken nor Tony

would be testifying against him. Now, first glance, it might seem that the fact that neither

of his co-defendants had been found guilty of the murder also favored Jason, but then again,

that could cut either way. The jury in Jason's case would know that so far no one had been

held accountable for Sharon's murder. Could that make them more likely to convict Jason,

so that someone, anyone, paid the price for her death? It's hard to know what if any

impact Tony's acquittal and Ken's walking-free had on Jason's trial. But the truth is

that despite the state striking out twice already, they already had a better shot at convicting

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