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Michael “Tiger Mandingo” Johnson Has Been Set Free

After being unjustly sentenced to 30 years for HIV “exposure,” Michael Johnson walked out of prison this week a free man today, after serving just five years. In 2015, Michael

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Tiger Mandingo, the wrestler convicted for reckless HIV transmission, gets parole after 30-year prison sentence

A judge granted Michael Johnson, the former college wrestler known as the Tiger Mandingo, parole from his 30-year (reduced to 10 years) prison sentence. He received the sentence after getting

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Ex-college wrestler who was sentenced to 30 years in HIV transmission case now gets 10 years

The sad and deeply unfair story of 25-year-old Michael Johnson, a.k.a. “Tiger Mandingo,” the former college wrestler sentenced to decades in prison for failing to disclose his HIV status, continues.

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College wrestler sentenced to 30 years for ‘recklessly’ transmitting HIV to get new trial

An HIV-positive college wrestler sentenced to three decades in prison for infecting other men is getting a new trial. An appeals court in Missouri found that recordings of phone calls

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The Conviction of HIV-Positive Tiger Mandingo

Originally published on Buzzfeed.com with the title ‘A Black Body On Trial: The Conviction of HIV-Positive ‘Tiger Mandingo’’, this makes for quite an electric (albeit lengthy) read. Check on it