Wrongly convicted Va. man gets pardon, new life

Published November 21, 2012 11:43pm ET



NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Johnathan Montgomery spent the past four years in a Virginia state prison saying the same thing a lot of inmates do: He was innocent.

Convicted in 2008 of molesting a 10-year-old girl outside her grandmother’s Hampton home when he was 14, he insisted the alleged 2000 assault never happened. Turns out, he was telling the truth.

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