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Virginia Prisoner Pardoned After Accuser Admits She Lied
Loaded on May 15, 2013
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2013, page 18
Everyone in Virginia's criminal justice system knew that Johnathan Christopher Montgomery was innocent of the crimes for which he’d been convicted.His accuser had recanted her testimony and admitted she lied to police about being molested by Montgomery more than a dozen years earlier. And yet the state continued to ...
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