
St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner on Friday accused Missouri's attorney general of seeking sanctions against her “because he has no case” in his effort to keep Lamar Johnson in prison for a murder that Johnson has long contended he had nothing to do with.
Republican Attorney General Eric Schmitt asked a St. Louis judge on Thursday to sanction Gardner, a Democrat, accusing her of concealing evidence as she seeks to vacate Johnson's conviction. Johnson was convicted in 1994 of killing 25-year-old Marcus Boyd in an alleged drug dispute.