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DNA and the Exit to Freedom
November 7, 2007
Calvin C. Johnson Jr. board of directors, Natl. Innocence Project

Calvin C. Johnson, Jr. dicsusses wrongful murder conviction and imprisonment, and the events that led to his exoneration.

Calvin C. Johnson, Jr. stood in a courtroom in 1983, and was sentenced to life in prison for a rape and burglary he said he did not commit. "With God as my witness, I have been falsely accused," Johnson told the judge, "I'm an innocent man." After 16 years in prison, Johnson was exonerated with the help of the Innocence Project and state of the art science. He was the 61st person in the US, and the first in Georgia, to be proved innocent by DNA testing.

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Image of Exit to Freedom
Author: Greg Hampikian, Calvin C. Johnson Jr.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press (2005)
Binding: Paperback, 320 pages
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