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J. Albert Johnson

J. Albert Johnson., (born February 22, 1933) is an American attorney known as "A Lawyer's Lawyer" because of his highly visible representation of judges and lawyers throughout the United States. For most of his career, he was licensed in Massachusetts and Florida,.He was a criminal defense attorney who served as the a lawyer in the court martial of Captain Ernest Medina for the My Lai Massacre, other high-profile trials include, James McCord of Watergate fame in Washington, D.C., Patty Hearst in San Francisco and Los Angeles, Judge Elwood McKenney in Massachusetts and Pamela Smart in New Hampshire.

He successfully defended his colleague and lifelong friend, F. LEE BAILEY, in California and also won an acquittal for Senior Superior Court Justice JOSEPH S. MITCHELL, JR., in Massachusetts. He was defense counsel for the so-called "Acton Jogger" in a recent murder case in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and, more recently, defense counsel to BARBARA WALKER in the Walker Navy spy trial cases. MR. JOHNSON is presently representing PAMELA SMART in her appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States.

MR. JOHNSON has participated in the trial of cases in thirty-three states and has an extensive background in the field of both civil and criminal litigation. He represents some of the country's best known personalities and several of its largest corporate entities. According to a comprehensive national annual survey of attorneys, written by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, Harvard Law School and published by Woodward/White, AL JOHNSON has been voted for the last ten years, or since the survey began, as one of "THE BEST LAWYERS IN AMERICA.".

Early life
Johnson was born in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Johnson attended Belmont, Public Schools and then St. Mary's High School, Waltham, Massachusetts, where he graduated in 19--. He studied at Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts 1952 Boston College Law School 1956 - 1969 Boston University Medical School 1962 United States Marine Corps. Johnson was commissioned as an officer and, following flight training, received his Naval Aviator ??? He served ??? and then began to serve as a squadron legal officer, the role he filled until he resigned his commission in 1956.

He briefly returned to Harvard before being admitted to Boston University School of Law in 1957, which accepted his military experience in lieu of the requirement for students to have completed at least three years of undergraduate college courses

Captain Ernest Medina
Johnson successfully defended U.S. Army Captain Ernest Medina in his 1971 court-martial for responsibility in the My Lai Massacre during the Vietnam War. Medina was court-martialed for allegedly allowing the men in the company he commanded to murder My Lai non-combatants. Medina claimed that he never gave orders to kill non-combatants, and that his men killed non-combatants of their own volition. Medina also testified that he was unable to stop the massacre because he did not become aware of it until it was too late. Medina additionally denied personally killing any Vietnamese non-combatants at My Lai, with the exception of a young woman whom two soldiers testified that they had found hiding in a ditch. When she emerged with her hands held up, Medina shot her because, as he claimed at his court-martial, he thought she had a grenade. Medina was acquitted, and subsequently left the Army. He later worked at an Enstrom Helicopter Corporation plant in which Johnson had an ownership stake.

James McCord
Shortly after resigning from the CIA, McCord was interviewed and then hired by Jack Caulfield in January 1972 "for strict, solely defensive security work at the Republican National Committee and the Committee to Re-Elect the President (CRP)". He and four other accomplices were arrested during the second break-in to the Democratic National Committee's headquarters at the Watergate complex on June 17, 1972. The arrests led to the Watergate scandal and resignation of President Nixon.

This criminal case is based on an eight count indictment filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on September 15, 1972. Therein, seven persons are charged with violations of several United States Code and District of Columbia Code provisions. The alleged violations, concerned principally with unlawful interception of oral and wire communications and theft of documents and other papers, are said by the indictment to have occurred at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in the District of Columbia and at various other locations. Mr. Johnson appeared as defense counsel for James W. McCord.Jr. September 27, 1972.

Patty Hearst
The prosecution of Patty Hearst, a newspaper heiress who had committed armed bank robberies after being kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA Hearst was convicted and sentenced to seven years in prison. She served 22 months before her sentence was commuted by President Jimmy Carter in 1977. She was pardoned by President Bill Clinton in 2001.

While Hearst was convicted at trial, Johnson did protect her from a further death-penalty prosecution. On April 28, 1975, members of the SLA had robbed a Crocker Bank branch in Carmichael, California. Hearst drove one of the getaway cars. A customer was killed when one of the robbers' gun discharged. The Symbionese Liberation Army members participating in the robbery were therefore subject to the death penalty under the felony murder rule. Johnson negotiated with prosecutors for Hearst to receive immunity in exchange for her testimony about the Carmichael robbery, thus protecting her from a possible death sentence.

Judge Elwood McKenney
Judge Elwood McKenney Retirement of a judge accused of misconduct in his judicial office did not terminate this court's authority or responsibility to consider imposition of further sanctions relative to his continuing status as a member of the bar, including sanctions more severe than those recommended by the Commission on Judicial Conduct. [85-86] With respect to a judge charged with misconduct in his judicial office who, as part of a negotiated resolution of proceedings before the Commission on Judicial Conduct, retired from judicial office and acquiesced in this court's imposition of public censure, this court concluded, in view of the entire record, that protection of the public did not require his disbarment or suspension from the office of attorney at law, [86-89] PROCEEDING in relation to an inquiry concerning a judge, commenced in the Supreme Judicial Court for the county of Suffolk on June 4, 1980. Following entry of its order of December 12, 1980, the full court considered the recommendation of the Board of Bar Overseers concerning discipline of the respondent.

Pamela Smart
Pamela Ann Smart (née Wojas) (born August 16, 1967) is an American criminal who was convicted of conspiring with her 15-year-old lover, William "Billy" Flynn, and three of his friends to kill her 24-year-old husband, Greggory Smart, on May 1, 1990, in Derry, New Hampshire. She was later convicted of being an accomplice to first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder, and witness tampering. She is currently serving a life sentence at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women, a maximum security prison in Westchester County, New York.

Albert Johnson is Smart's attorney. He is from Boston, Massachusetts and is nationally known for his high-profile clients, such as Patty Hearst and F. Lee Bailey. In April 2004, the First U.S. Court of Appeals upheld a 2002 ruling by a federal judge who rejected her federal habeas petition. Previous to her federal appeal, Smart had exhausted all judicial appeals at the state level. In July 2005, the New Hampshire Executive Council unanimously denied a pardon request for "any conditions the governor may seek to impose." In an interview with ABC News, Smart indicated she is afraid of growing old and dying in prison and would rather have had the death penalty than life

Television career
Mr. Johnson has appeared as a legal expert and guest on many Radio and Television programs throughout the country including but certainly not limited to the following appearances:

ABC Nightline, Good Morning America, World News Tonight, ABC Radio News, Millers Court, ABC News with Barbara Walters, ABC Chronicle Documentary “Justice on Trial”, “Crisis in the Courts”, ABC News Diane Sawyer

CNN Radio News, Aaron Brown, Wolf Blitzer, Miles O’Brien, Arthel Williams, CNN News International

FOX TV The O’Reilly Factor, Phil Donahue Show, Geraldo Rivera,

NBC News, Inside Edition with Deborah Norville, Today Show with Matt Lauer and Katie Couric

PBS Boston Common with Emily Rooney

CBS Evening News

Legal Expert - WRKO Radio Boston, WBZ-TV Boston, CH 7 Boston, CH 25 Boston, CH 68 Boston, CH 56 Boston

Legal Expert and Frequent Panel Commentator New England Cable Network Boston

Legal Expert and Commentator CH 5 Boston

Legal Expert and Frequent Guest the Upton Bell Show - WBIX Boston

Legal Expert and Guest The David Brudnoy Show - WBZ Radio Boston (42 State Coverage)

WROL – Boston The Ray Flynn Show

Legal Expert and Frequent Guest The Jerry Williams Show - WRKO and CH 25 Boston

Legal Expert—WBZ Radio

Partial List

Active Membership in the following Professional Organizations
Massachusetts Bar Association

Massachusetts Trial Lawyers Association

American Trial Lawyers Association

Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts

Massachusetts Chiefs of Police Association

Boston College Law School Alumni Association

Past Committeeman - Old Colony Council - Boy Scouts of America

Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association

The Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization

American Judicature Society (Fellow)

Massachusetts Governor's Highway Safety Bureau

The Commission on the Codification of Laws, Commonwealth of Massachusetts

The Helicopter Association of America

Committee Member - The Unauthorized Practice of Law, Massachusetts Bar Association

Visiting Lecturer - University of Tennessee, University of Michigan, University of Wisconsin, Albany State University, North Adams State College, Illinois State University, Boston College

New England Chiefs of Police Association

Registry of Motor Vehicles Inspectors Association

Former Massachusetts State Troopers Inc.

The One Hundred Club of South Florida

Director Wequaquet Lake Protective Association