A lawyer says she was kidnapped by her client. Her book may help overturn his conviction
Frankie Covington has served 16 years of a life sentence for kidnapping his former lawyer, but now he may have a shot at freedom.The Kentucky Depar...
Frankie Covington has served 16 years of a life sentence for kidnapping his former lawyer, but now he may have a shot at freedom.The Kentucky Department of Public Advocacy is seeking to revoke Covington's conviction and win him a new trial on the grounds that Sharon Muse Johnson – Covington's former lawyer, who is now the commonwealth's attorney for Bourbon, Scott and Woodford counties – perjured herself when she testified at his trial.The agency's attorneys say they re-investigated the highly publicized kidnapping after one of the prosecutors who tried it said he noticed discrepancies between Muse Johnson's trial testimony and her account of the crime in her 2020 book, 'Kidnapped by a Client: The Incredible True Story of a Lawyer's Fight for Justice.