Request to withdraw pleas in shooting spree denied
URBANA – Torriano Johnson may not take back the guilty pleas he entered earlier this year that resulted in a 50-year prison sentence for his two-city shooting spree in June 2007.
"The court finds that no doubt exists as to the defendant's guilt. The defendant is not asserting his actual innocence nor has he tendered any meritorious defense that could have been presented if the case proceeded to trial," Judge Heidi Ladd said in her ruling denying his request to withdraw the pleas. She was to file her order today.
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