BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - The trial for Earl Lee Johnson, Jr., the man accused of killing Janice David in 2022 and livestreaming a portion of it on Instagram, is now in its second day.

The state continued by calling witnesses to the stand, including police officers who responded to the original crime scene in the parking lot of a business off Sherwood Forest Blvd., and one who was involved in the subsequent car chase.

They also called East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner Dr. Beau Clark, who described very graphic photos from the autopsy that were shown to the courtroom, showing many stab wounds and thermal injuries from fire.

Dr. Clark confirmed that David’s cause of death was numerous sharp force injuries, as well as inhalation of fire. He says her oxyhemoglobin level was 46% and she had so

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