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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By that point, the question became simple.
Would the Supreme Court let this fight continue or kill it?
The state Supreme Court agreed with Stephen and his team.
The new evidence in Tanya's case, that suppressed confession, should be heard.
And once it landed back in Memphis, everything slowed to a crawl again.
Dates had to be set.
Records had to be pulled.
By the time the hearing was finally scheduled in 2006, four years had passed since Stephen first filed the petition.
And in that stretch of time, Stephen's fight became even more personal.
Now Stephen had to walk into that courtroom alone and prove what the state had hidden in 1969.
And there was somebody else from Tanya's original trial, somebody unexpected, Ken Armstrong, the last surviving member of the all-male jury that condemned Tanya to 99 years in prison.
When Tanya's capture made headlines, Ken got in touch with Steven.
And Ken had more to reveal.
Things no one had ever put on the record.
There's a rule in the law that says you can't use someone's past accusations or bad acts against them.
Bringing it up at trial is unfairly prejudicial, so it's usually kept out.
When Stephen called Ken Armstrong as a witness, Stephen asked Ken if they had known about the suppressed evidence back in the 1969 trial, would they have convicted Margo Freshwater?
But it still wasn't enough.
Remember, in her original trial, part of the problem was that under Tennessee law, Tanya was considered an accomplice just by virtue of being there when the murder happened.
Judge Higgs denied the appeal again.
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