Attorneys: State Failed To Prove Phylicia Barnes Was Murdered

BALTIMORE (WJZ)– Halfway through Michael Johnson’s third murder trial, his attorneys are trying to force a final ruling.
Johnson is on trial for the murder of 16-year-old Phylicia Barnes, an honor student from North Carolina who vanished in 2010 while visiting family in Baltimore. Her body was found months later.
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Barnes was visiting her half-sisters in Baltimore when she disappeared just after Christmas.