Justin Johnson, 26, was found guilty of first-degree murder and other charges in the shooting death of rapper Young Dolph. The jury deliberated for about four hours before reaching a verdict.
at a Memphis bakery three years ago was convicted on all counts Thursday. After about four hours of deliberation, jurors found Justin Johnson, 26, guilty of first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
In his final words to the jury Thursday, Hagerman said Johnson was “caught before, caught during and then caught after” Thornton’s murder thanks to a wealth of surveillance videos, cell phone records and testimony from his alleged accomplice, Cornelius Smith. Evans also urged the jury to focus on the lack of physical evidence found in the Mercedes. He said Smith’s fingerprints were recovered from the vehicle but not Johnson’s. “It’s never justice to wrongfully convict someone,” Evans said. “ didn’t kill Adolph Thornton Jr. He didn’t conspire to kill Adolph Thornton Jr., and he wasn’t the man holding the pistol in the Makeda video.”
“Dolph was well aware – well aware – of the threats and the violence from CMG that were constantly hanging over him and his people,” Hagerman said in his opening. He showed jurors the harrowing surveillance videos from Makeda’s, saying Johnson and Smith had been hand-picked by another man charged in the case, Hernandez Govan, to carry out the “hit.
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