At the Connecticut Superior Court at 146 White Street in Danbury a few days before Halloween, Johnson’s lawyer Martin Minella entered a defense of not guilty by reason of demonic possession.
It turns out that a year earlier, the 11-year-old brother of Johnson’s fiancée, who was also on-scene for the Bono murder, was treated for demon possession by various priests and Ed and Lorraine Warren. Johnson was involved in the exorcism and claimed to have been affected because of it.