Donnell Johnson
5 years
Donnell Johnson was let out of prison in 2000 after serving almost five years for murder. Johnson was put away for the shooting of a 9-year-old boy who was outside counting his Halloween candy. The conviction rested solely on faulty eyewitness testimony of the victim’s family. During a federal drug investigation unrelated to this crime, a gang-member came forward and confessed to the crime, claiming that Johnson had nothing to do with it. Because of this evidence. Suffolk D.A. Ralph C. Martin publicly admitted error in this case, and publicly apologized to Johnson.
