State's star witness recants on stand
By Mary Schenk
Thursday November 29, 2007
URBANA – A convicted murderer and drug dealer said he implicated friends in a 10-year-old Champaign murder to get a reduced sentence for a federal drug conviction.
"Facing all that time is like somebody putting a gun to your head," Shance Dalton testified Wednesday in the Champaign County murder trial of Erick Johnson, who last lived in Urbana.
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