Legal Opinion
Donnell Johnson v. William Mahoney, Daniel Keeler, the City of Boston and Paul F. Evans
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided September 20, 2005No. 04-1745PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CAMPBELL, Senior Circuit Judge.
Convicted after a jury trial in the Massachusetts Juvenile Court of first degree murder and related offenses, Donnell Johnson was sentenced to 18 to 20 years for the fatal shooting of a nine-year-old boy in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. He appealed unsuccessfully to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (“SJC”). Five years into Johnson’s sentence, the District Attorney nolle prossed Johnson’s convictions in light of new evidence exonerating him, and Johnson was released.
Johnson subsequently brought a complaint in the United States…
2Cases cited43 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Brady v. MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Heck v. HumphreySupreme Court of the United States · 1994
- United States v. CronicSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Allen v. McCurrySupreme Court of the United States · 1980
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