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Mistaken DNA interpretation sends death-row case to retrial

When Kareem Johnson killed Walter Smith outside a North Philadelphia nightclub, prosecutors said, he shot him at such close range that Smith's blood splashed onto Johnson's red Air Jordan baseball cap.

Kareem Johnson was sentenced to death in 2007.
Kareem Johnson was sentenced to death in 2007.Read more