Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Johnson's bail was first set at more than $1 million. Judge Jacob S. Levin, who will preside at the trial, later reduced it to $100,000, and Terrance went free pending trial...
...October, P.G. Circuit Court Judge Vincent J. Femia ruled that Johnson should stand trial as an adult, saying "There is no place for him in the juvenile system... We have no place for Terrance Johnsons...
Standing trial as an adult, Johnson could face two consecutive life sentences if convicted. In juvenile court he would have been engible for parole on his twenty-first Birthday...
Arthur A. Marshall Jr., Maryland attorney general, has decided to prosecute this case himself--for the first time in three years. Critics and Johnson supporters point out that Marshall did not try to get an indictment against the white policemen who shot unarmed black suspects last year. Marshall says, "I didn't go before the grand jury to seek an indictment in the Johnson case, either. I have always made it a policy to prosecute shootings involving the police, whether they are victims or defendants," once charges are brought...
...circumstances surrounding Johnson's trial, however, are quickly producing a sort of public indictment of the entire P.G. County police force. Recent events in the county and within the police department demonstrate a staunch resistance to change, especially when change means racial integration...