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Michael Maurice Johnson

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

New Trial For Man Convicted of Murdering Phylicia Barnes

A judge said prosecutors didn't share required information.

The Baltimore man found guilty last month of murdering 16-year-old Phylicia Barnes will get a new trial, according to WBAL-TV. A judge Wednesday was supposed to sentence Michael Maurice Johnson.  Instead, Judge Alfred Nance said prosecutors failed to give Johnson’s lawyers new information about one of their witnesses, according to the Baltimore Sun. Johnson faced 30 years in prison for killing Barnes, a North Carolina resident who was in Baltimore visiting her half-sister. She went missing in December 2010. After a search that spread throughout much of the state, including Howard County, Barnes’s body was found Susquehanna River in April 2010. Johnson’s attorneys said prosecutors overstated the credibility of James McCray, a witness who …

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(UPDATED 4/21, 5:45 p.m.) State Police Confirm Phylicia Barnes Found Dead and Jury Delivers Verdict in Phylicia Barnes Murder Trial

Monday, December 31, 2012

Report: Prosecutors Say Sex Video Shows Phylicia Barnes, Accused Murderer

Lawyers say the 16-year-old honor student was shown "intoxicated" in a video with her accused killer, according to news reports.

Prosecutors in the case against the accused killer of Phylicia Barnes will show a video at trial depicting the teenage victim “intoxicated and engaging in sexual relations” with her accused killer and others, the Baltimore Sun reports. Barnes, a 16-year-old from North Carolina, went missing from Baltimore three days after Christmas 2010, while she was in Baltimore visiting her half-sister. Barnes’s body was found in the Susquehanna River in April 2011. The search for Barnes spread out across Maryland, reaching Howard County in the spring of 2011.  During a Maryland State Police-led search of the Patapsco Valley State Park on April 9, police did not find Barnes, but they did find a body, later identified as John H. Hagegeorge, 55, of …

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(UPDATED 4/21, 5:45 p.m.) State Police Confirm Phylicia Barnes Found Dead, Patapsco Valley State Park, and Police Identify Man Found in Patapsco Valley State Park

Keith

12:40 pm on Friday, January 11, 2013

Yeah I agree the half sister knows more. He drugged that little girl in addition to alcohol. Sad so very sad.   more ›

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