Georgia man acquitted after 29 years files civil rights suit
Source: AP
By KATE BRUMBACK
ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia man says he was frightened into pleading guilty for a murder he didn't commit after police dangled him off a bridge three decades ago, brought charges against his parents and threatened him with the death penalty.
Timothy R. Johnson was 22 in September 1984 when police arrested him and charged him in the killing of a Warner Robins convenience store clerk shot during a robbery. He pleaded guilty in December of that year — even though he says he didn't commit the crime. He was sentenced to life in prison.
In 2006, the Georgia Supreme Court overturned Johnson's conviction, saying there was nothing to indicate he understood his right not to incriminate himself and his right to confront witnesses.
It took seven more years before he was finally tried and was able to make his case before a jury, which found him not guilty on all charges.
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In this Dec. 5, 2013, photo, Timothy Johnson embraces a family member after he was exonerated of a 1984 killing in Houston County in Perry, Ga. Johnson said he was frightened into pleading guilty for a murder he didn't commit after police dangled him off a bridge three decades ago, brought charges against his parents and threatened him with the death penalty. (Grant Blankenship/The Macon Telegraph via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT
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That's magnanimous, especially considering what happened to your family. 
After watching what a friend's family went through when false confessions were forced, and the decades of hoping for real justice, with innocent people on death row for their sister's brutal rape and murder, I will never understand advocating for the death penalty.
