CAMPBELL, Senior Circuit Judge.
Convicted after a jury trial in the Massachusetts Juvenile Court of first degree murder and related offenses, Donnell Johnson was sentenced to 18 to 20 years for the fatal shooting of a nine-year-old boy in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. He appealed unsuccessfully to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ("SJC"). Five years into Johnson's sentence, the District Attorney nolle prossed Johnson's convictions in light...
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