Crime & Safety
BPD Sued By Innocent Man Who Spent 30 Years In Prison
Jerome Johnson claims detectives withheld evidence that would have cleared him.
BALTIMORE, MD — A Baltimore area man, who was exonerated after being incarcerated for almost 30 years for a murder he did not commit, filed a federal lawsuit against former homicide detectives and the Baltimore Police Department for allegedly suppressing evidence of his innocence in order to implicate him in a murder. Jerome Johnson was 20 years old in October 1988 when he was arrested and charged with murder.
“He’s trying to put his life back together,” Johnson’s lawyers said. “We’re looking for some compensation for the 30 years that those officers took.”
