Bloodletting?

"I am real confident that the folks that have handled this case don't believe that the wrong man has been charged," says the district attorney. "But we're not the final arbiter of that. If we were, Mr. Durrett would already be in the penitentiary."

Holmes also denies that his office had anything to do with Johnson's firing.
"To my knowledge, there is no one here who did that," says Holmes. "We did have concerns [with Johnson's work]. And not just in the Durrett case. Durrett was kind of the final straw. But the work that we did in hiring outside folks to kind of look over her shoulder did not justify in my mind [continued] criticism of her work. Based upon our experience in Durrett and those other cases, for anyone [from the D.A.'s office] to recommend that she be terminated would be on shaky ground."

Whatever the real reason or reasons for her termination from her $52,000-a-year job, Johnson does indeed plan to sue the medical examiner's office.

She has also made a promise to herself.
"As God as my witness, I will never work for the government again," says Johnson.

At least not too hard.