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Junior captain Kyle Kovacs sailed with junior crew Elyse Dolbec and sophomore crew Christina Cordeiro in B-division, while senior skipper Clay Johnson and senior crew Kristen Lynch sailed the final regatta of their career in the three-day race that ended June...
...ICSA Team Race Nationals were held May 27-29, resulting in a fourth-place finish for Harvard. Johnson, Lynch, Kovacs, Dolbec, senior skipper Matthew Knowles, and senior crew Emily Simon earned the Crimson the first of two top-five finishes in less thank a week. St. Mary’s won the team race championship with a 12-5 overall record...
...Crime: After being charged, but not convicted, in a 1981 rape case, Johnson became a primary suspect in a series of two rapes that took place two days apart in March 1983. Both female victims, from College Park, Ga., were choked and sexually assaulted by a black man, and one of them identified Johnson as the rapist in a photo lineup. He was convicted for that incident of rape, aggravated sodomy and burglary...
...Exoneration: In 1997, after several failed attempts for a new trial, the Innocence Project took on Johnson's case, filing an extraordinary motion for a new trial, which would allow DNA testing from the rape kit to be conducted. DNA from the kit did not match Johnson's, and after a new trial in 1999, the District Attorney dropped all charges. "I don't see any reason to harbor any bitterness," Johnson said after his release. "If you hold something like that inside you, it just destroys you. Now it's time for me to go on with my life...
...very different from each other who all somehow felt the need to have him by their side. You could almost feel the rest of them hovering protectively over the proceedings in Charlotte: Eisenhower, who asked Graham on his deathbed how you can know if you're going to heaven; Johnson, who invited Graham to the White House within weeks of taking office for an encounter that included both prayer and skinnydipping in the White House pool; even Nixon's ghost, come to honor the man he'd clearly loved, and deeply wounded...