Author's Remarks:
Lamar Johnson is a 50 years old Black Missouri man that very unjustly spent 28 years of his life in jail for a murder, which he didn't commit and distinctly unfailingly always maintained his own innocence. A conviction, in which the detectives on the case bullied a quite vulnerable youngster who was clearly himself no party to the crime that it was Lamar Johnson who committed the murder. A statement, which this bullied youngster later retracted but to no avail. A current inmate and his now dead accomplice admitted to the murder but it made no difference as the local Attorney general who clearly had evidence of Lamar Johnson's just as he did at the bogus trial refused to release concrete evidence both to the attorney for Lamar Johnson as well as the court itself that the defendant in this murder case Lamar Johnson was indeed innocent.
Now 28 years later an appeal court in Missouri in absolutely full position of all the facts that were simply likewise available at the initial trial has clearly categorically ruled that the then quite wrongly accused Lamar Johnson was absolutely, totally innocent all along; with the 2023 appeal court judge in the Lamar Johnson case stating quite categorically and I quite categorically quote: "There was reliable, clear and convincing evidence of (the convicted Lamar Johnson's actual innocence."
An evidently quite distinctly criminally corrupt, very racist Missouri attorney general and his equally sick and also intellectually challenged accomplices have quite literally gotten away with murder, till now; and in my opinion should pay the ultimate price!
In the meantime and likewise clearly knowing full well that this distinctive case of Lamar Johnson is not unique and in states with the death penalty numerous Blacks cavalierly stitched up for crimes: capital ones and well as others have either been executed or have died in jail without parole, I sincerely wish Lamar Johnson all the very best for the future while my own thoughts go out to the victims and the families of all those affected by these vile acts of barbaric racism.
This poem is dedicated to all of you and self-evidently future victims!