Albert K. Johnson

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Charge:	Sexual Assault and Burglary
Sentence:	24 years
Years Imprisoned:	10
Year Crime:	1992
Year Convicted:	1992
Year Cleared:	2002
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	California
County or Region of Crime:	Contra Costa
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	Albert K. Johnson was wrongly convicted in 1992 of sexual assault and burglary based on his erroneous identification by the victim as her assailant. Albert Johnson was exonerated in October 2002 by DNA testing unavailable at the time of his trial. A search of the FBI's DNA database matched the crime scene DNA to a man who cannot be prosecuted because the statute of limitations had expired.
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Innocence Proved By:	Post-conviction DNA testing.
Defendant Aided By:	Northern California Innocence Project
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Was Perpetrator Identified?	Yes
Age When Imprisoned:	30
Age When Released:	40
Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	Black
Information Source 1:	"Not Guilty After All, San Francisco Magazine, November 2004"
Information Location 1:	http://sanfran.com/archives/view_story/200/
Information Source 2:	Innocence Project database
Information Location 2:	http://www.innocenceproject.org/case/display_profile.php?id=112
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Albert K. Johnson

Charge:

Sexual Assault and Burglary

Sentence:

24 years

Years Imprisoned:

10

Year Crime:

1992

Year Convicted:

1992

Year Cleared:

2002

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

California

County or Region of Crime:

Contra Costa

City of Crime:

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

Post-conviction DNA testing.

Defendant Aided By:

Northern California Innocence Project

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Yes

Age When Imprisoned:

30

Age When Released:

40

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Black

Information Source 1:

"Not Guilty After All, San Francisco Magazine, November 2004"

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http://sanfran.com/archives/view_story/200/

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Innocence Project database

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http://www.innocenceproject.org/case/display_profile.php?id=112

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