Stephen Ross Johnson
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245 appearances
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 9 Feb
Stephen Ross Johnson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The Binge.
The Memphis newscasters made it sound like her lawyers could just fight their way back into court.
Fighting was easy.
Getting a judge to even open the door was the trickier part.
Tanya had new evidence, the confession from Glenn Nash that he alone killed Hillman Robbins Sr.
But evidence means nothing if there's no legal way to show it to anyone.
That's Stephen Ross Johnson, one of Tanya's lawyers.
Once the deadlines and statutes of limitations have passed, that kind of proof is basically locked out.
Post-conviction law doesn't give you much room to work with.
You can only raise constitutional issues.
And luckily, Stephen had one, a Brady violation.
The prosecutor had withheld evidence that supported Tanya's claim of innocence in a death penalty trial, which is about as serious as it gets.
But even with that, they were decades past the deadline to file it.
It's used when somebody has already been convicted, has no appeals left, and then new evidence surfaces that couldn't have been found earlier and might have changed the outcome.
Think of it like going back to the judge and saying, if you had known this back then, things could have turned out differently.
And here's the proof.
It's rare, and it succeeds even more rarely.
And in the spring of 2003, Tanya was brought back into a Tennessee courtroom for the first time since the world was being rocked by Woodstock.
Steven Ross Johnson and Bob Ritchie showed up with a bold claim that the 32-year delay should have been forgiven because the state had caused it.
Tanya didn't know about Nash's confession.
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