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b'Episode 258: On the morning of February 20, 1989, stay-at-home mother of two\\xa0Janice Faye Johnson\\xa0was found unconscious, gravely injured and barely clinging to life at the foot of a flight of basement stairs in the\\xa0Shelburne, Nova Scotia\\xa0home she shared with her family,\\xa0Clayton Norman Johnson\\xa0and daughters Darla and Dawn. Even though she was still alive when she was found by a neighbour, who called for an ambulance immediately, Janice died in the hospital just after noon that day.\\nMore than three years after her death, police arrested Janice\\u2019s husband, Clayton, a high school industrial arts teacher, and charged him with first-degree murder. Consistently maintaining his innocence throughout subsequent proceedings, on May 4, 1993, Clayton was found guilty of the first-degree murder of his wife. He was later sentenced to life in prison \\u2014 his appeals, citing spurious forensic evidence, were rejected. He spent the next five years in prison.\\nSources:\\nClayton Johnson - Innocence Canada\\nCrown Halts Clayton Johnson Murder Prosecution - Government of Nova Scotia, Canada\\nClayton Johnson Settlement - Government of Nova Scotia, Canada\\nClayton Johnson: Innocent man convicted by so-called experts\\nClayton Johnson walks as Crown balks at new trial | CBC News\\nShelburne man, wrongly convicted of wife\\u2019s murder, dies | CBC News\\n1998 NSCA 14 (CanLII) | R. v. Johnson | CanLII\\n1994 NSCA 79 (CanLII) | R. v. Johnson | CanLII\\nClayton Johnson - Wrongful Conviction - Pyzer Criminal Lawyers\\nClayton Johnson: obituary and death notice on InMemoriam\\nClayton Johnson wrongful murder conviction: Tide of Suspicion (1998) - The Fifth Estate \\u2014 YouTube\\nWrongly convicted man cleared in wife\\u2019s death - The Globe and Mail\\nAccident or Murder? | Forensic Files Wiki | Fandom\\n\\u201cForensic Files\\u201d Accident or Murder? (TV Episode 1999) - Reference View - IMDb\\nObituary | Clayton Norman Johnson of Barrington, Nova Scotia | H.M. Huskilson\\u2019s Funeral Home\\nScribd | Justice Miscarried: Inside Wrongful Convictions in Canada\\xa0\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'