BALTIMORE — A man charged with killing a Monroe teenager in Baltimore is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to block a third trial in the case.
Thirty-three-year-old Michael Maurice Johnson's lawyer said in court Friday that a Maryland appeals court decision that a judge should not have granted an acquittal after a mistrial.
[ [Appeals court orders new trial for man acquitted of killing Phylicia Barnes] ]
Johnson is charged with second-degree murder in the 2010 death of 16-year-old Phylicia Barnes. Her body was found in the Susquehanna River months after she disappeared while visiting family in Baltimore.
Johnson appeared in a Baltimore court Friday and was put on pre-trial supervision, according to reports. A judge scheduled a third trial for March 2018.
In 2013, Johnson was convicted by a jury of murder. That conviction was overturned at sentencing.
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