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Alaine GriffinContact Reporter NEW HAVEN — In the same courtroom where a judge in 2007 sentenced him to 38 years in prison for a murder he said he did not commit, Bobby Johnson won his freedom Friday surrounded by the family members and lawyers who always believed he was innocent. “I will enter a dismissal […]

Bobby Johnson following his release from prison, Friday, Sept. 4, 2015. NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A man who spent nine years in prison for a 2006 killing that his supporters say he was coerced into confessing to as a teenager with a low IQ was set free Friday after a judge vacated his murder conviction at […]

By Esteban L. Hernandez, New Haven Register Bobby Johnson, center, holds his sister, Halo Nelson, 2, after speaking to the press outside Superior Court in New Haven Friday.Arnold Gold — New Haven Register NEW HAVEN >> Bobby Johnson made the five-second walk out of Superior Court Friday with the help of the same folks who helped […]

Bobby Johnson was released from prison on Friday after nine years served for a crime he did not commit. Johnson was coerced into confessing and pleading guilty to murder when he was just 16. Records show that his IQ was below the mental impairment line. By Tracy Hughey | Sep 06, 2015 10:32 AM EDT Bobby Johnson […]

THOMAS MACMILLAN PHOTO Angela Johnson with photo of Bobby Johnson outside a 2012 hearing. Another African-American New Haven man railroaded by corrupt cops is set to walk free after years languishing in prison. This man’s name is Bobby Johnson. New Haven police charged Johnson, when he was 16, with killing 70-year-old Herbert Fields in Newhallville […]