Stephen Ross Johnson
speaker
245 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
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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Her trial lawyer didn't know.
But the prosecution had a simpler answer, one they thought ended the conversation before it began.
John Campbell, you heard his voice in our first episode.
Today, he's a judge on the Court of Criminal Appeals in Tennessee, but in 2003, he was the assistant district attorney for Shelby County.
It didn't matter that the evidence had been tucked away in a file for decades.
The delay was her fault.
There was an added difficulty for Tanya's defense.
Stephen and his colleague, Bob Ritchie, were stepping into unfamiliar territory.
And the pressure didn't stop there.
Tanya's family filled the benches, watching every move, every word.
They were counting on Stephen and Bob to finally break the cycle that had trapped her for decades.
John Campbell, though, got a more hostile reaction from Tanya's relatives.
I really haven't.
This hearing wasn't about getting justice for Tanya or what the evidence showed.
It was simpler, harsher.
Whose fault was the decades-long delay?
The state's because the original prosecutor, Terry Lafferty, suppressed the evidence?
Or Tanya's for running?
Tanya's escape, something she'd never be able to undo, had become the very thing blocking the truth she'd been trying to surface her entire adult life.
Judge Higgs listened.
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