This is Lorenzo Johnson, and this is my latest, “Accountability: Time is Now.”
Dear society, first and foremost, I would like to thank everyone for their support and their signing of my freedom petition. I encourage everyone to continue to support me in the fight of my life — literally for my life. I hope all is well with everybody and your families.
There’s a big event taking place on December 18th, 2013. My support system is returning to the scene of the crime: Dauphin County Courthouse/Attorney General’s office in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. I encourage anyone who can make it to show up and help justice be served once and for all. My family marched/ rallied along with Kareem Elie’s family, at the same location in 2004. Kareem Elie became a free man this year, and now is reunited with his family after spending over a decade wrongfully in prison on a life sentence.
Although we live in the day of information/social media, a lot of information on wrongful conviction is highly suppressed. One of my comrades, Ryan Ferguson, life sentence was finally vacated and he was ordered to be released after a decade of wrongful imprisonment. For a week straight, CNN uncovered his injustice and repeatedly viewed his interview. Now on the other hand, my comrade and good friend, Eugene Gilliard wrongful life sentence has been vacated after fifteen years, and he’s back with his family in Philadelphia. No publicity on his injustice, but a brief article in a local newspaper. I spoke to Eugene the day he was leaving, and when one of us wins, it’s like we all won, because we share the victory of being innocent. I personally know Eugene and he’s a great man, and will have an impact in society.
Now the million dollar question is, how long I, Lorenzo Johnson, and my family have to be tortured mentally, emotionally, and be held captive for a crime I’m innocent of. It took fifteen and a half years for justice to be served the first time, only to be shortly lived for five months, and be sent back to prison on a wrongful life sentence by the United States Supreme Court. Well, now I’m at eighteen years in prison for a crime I’m innocent of. I wish this on nobody, even the people responsible for me being here.
For my supporters, I love each and every one of you in this country and all my supporters out of the country. Keep signing my freedom petition. Write an attorney general on my behalf. And for everyone who can make it out to the rally/protest on December 18th, 2013 please show up and bring or tell a friend. For more information, go to: FreeLorenzoJohnson.org. The pain within, free the innocent, Lorenzo Cat Johnson.
These commentaries are recorded by Noel Hanrahan of Prison Radio.
