Legal Opinion
Johnson v. United States
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided November 13, 2008No. 05-CF-1000PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WASHINGTON, Chief Judge:
On March 17, 2002, Markus Johnson, an aspiring model, killed Michael Myers, the owner of a modeling agency, by inflicting numerous wounds with, among other implements, two knives, a screwdriver, a floor buffer, and finally, a hacksaw. That Johnson committed the act is uncontested. And by all accounts, the scene of the Wiling was horrific.
A grand jury indicted Johnson for first-degree premeditated murder while armed with aggravating circumstances (that “the murder was especially heinous, atrocious, *286or cruel”),1 first-degree felony murder while armed (while attempting to…
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