Life sentence affirmed for creep who said ‘Jimmy’s not coming out of the woods tonight’

Brett L. Johnson, who led a frightened 16-year-old boy to his death, can’t use the “My lawyers sucked” defense to weasel out of his prison time.

In the fall of 1999, Johnson, then 18, and some buddies were planning to rob a grocery store. When they sensed that Jimmy Weber, the juvenile getaway driver of this imagined heist, was getting cold feet, Johnson and partner James Boyd came up with a plan to stab him to death in a woody area off Searcy Creek Parkway. “You know, Jimmy’s not coming out of the woods tonight,” Johnson icily told a female friend who had been brought along to give Weber a false sense of comfort.