A Baltimore man rejoiced Monday as he walked free after spending nearly three decades behind bars for a murder he didn’t commit.
Jerome Johnson, 50, was wrongfully charged and convicted for his role in the 1988 murder of Aaron Taylor inside the Nite Owl liquor store near Woodland Avenue in Park Heights, local station WBAL-TV reported. Johnson’s conviction was hinged on the faulty testimony of a 15-year-old girl who claimed she saw him at the bar at the time of the shooting.