| First Name | Larry |
| Last Name | Johnson |
| Year of Conviction | 1984 |
| Year of Exoneration | 2002 |
| State of Conviction | Missouri |
| Trial, Bench Trial, or Guilty Plea | Trial |
| Type of Crime | Rape |
| Death Sentence | No |
| Gender of Exoneree | Male |
| Race of exoneree | Black |
| Juvenile | No |
| Description / Quotes from Testimony Concerning Defense | ● Defense argued mistaken identity and challenged victim’s identification |
| Did the defendant testify at trial? | No |
| Types of evidence at trial |
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| Type of Forensic Evidence |
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| Types of Flawed Forensics |
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| Brief Quote / Description of Testimony | Testified only that he found spermatozoa. |
| Identity of eyewitness |
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| Lineup Procedures |
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| Suggestive Procedures | Yes ● Suggestive remarks – redrawing of composite |
| Quotes from testimony #1 | Prosecutor requested four weeks before trial that the composite be redrawn to add a mustache – police artist explained “One is a face without a mustache and one is a face with a mustached penciled in.” |
| Unreliable Identification? | No ● Discrepancies in description – facial hair, hair ● Voice nonidentification |
| Quotes from testimony #2 | Victim described attacker to the officers as having a “clean shaven pudgey face” Yet he had a ‘mustache, light beard” when arrested the day following the incident. “Did you identify any of the voices of being the voice of the person who attacked you that night? A. I really couldn’t concentrate on their voices. No, I did not identify them.” |
| Highest level reached | Appeal |
| Claims Raised During All Appeals and Postconviction |
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| Citations to judicial opinions | Missouri v. Johnson, 722 S.W.2d 62 (Mo. 1986) |