RANDY ECONOMY: MY WORLD: TOMIKA JOHNSON: Former CHP Officer Convicted Marcus Lemons

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

TOMIKA JOHNSON: Former CHP Officer Convicted Marcus Lemons

SO GLAD that JUSTICE has been served in the criminal trial of Tomika Johnson, a former California Highwaty Patrol Officer who was found guilty of killing her husband Marcus Lemons, two years ago next month. This was one of those "bizarre" murders out of the scene of a CSI episode.

LOS ANGELES – A former CHP officer was found guilty today of fatally shooting her husband in the head nearly three years ago shortly after they left a Compton restaurant, the District Attorney’s office announced. The jury of eight men and four women deliberated a day before finding Tomiekia Johnson, 32, guilty of the first-degree murder of her 31-year-old husband, Marcus Lemons, of Feb. 21, 2009. The jury also found true the special allegations of personal discharge of a firearm and discharge of a firearm causing great bodily injury. Johnson, who has been out on bail during the trial, collapsed under the defense table as the verdict was being read. Paramedics were called and she was taken out of the court room handcuffed to a gurney. Judge Robert J. Perry remanded her into custody. Deputy District Attorneys Natalie Adomian and Stephanie Sparagna with the Justice System Integrity Division prosecuted the case. Lemons was fatally shot as he was sitting in the passenger side of Johnson’s BMW near a 91 Freeway off-ramp about 11 p.m. on Feb. 21, 2009. She then drove the car to her parents home in Compton and had her mother call police. Johnson is facing 50 years to life in prison when she returns to court March 9 for sentencing

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