Appeals court orders new trial for man acquitted of killing Phylicia Barnes

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BALTIMORE — The man accused of killing Union County teenager Phylicia Barnes could go back to trial.

This is a case that Eyewitness News has followed since 2010.

The State Attorney's Office in Baltimore tweeted out that a court of special appeals reversed a lower court decision to dismiss charges against Michael Johnson.

Prosecutors argued Johnson asphyxiated Barnes while she was visiting her half-sister for Christmas in 2010.

It will be the third time he would go to trial in the case.

Her body was discovered in a river four months later