In 1994, Lamar Johnson was convicted of a St. Louis murder he did not commit. The case against him was built on fabricated police evidence, a coerced eyewitness identification, and the testimony of a jailhouse informant with everything to gain. Even after the key witness recanted and the real perpetrators confessed, Johnson remained behind bars — caught in a system resistant to admitting its mistakes. For nearly three decades, institutional opposition, including from the Missouri Attorney General's Office, stood in the way of his freedom. It wasn’t until a change in Missouri law empowered local prosecutors to challenge wrongful convictions that Johnson’s case was finally heard. In 2023, after 28 years of incarceration, his conviction was overturned. In this episode of Voices Not Forgotten, we examine the failures that led to Johnson’s wrongful conviction, the long fight for justice, and what his case reveals about power, accountability, and reform in the American legal system. Beca...