Tag: Michael Johnson

Michael Johnson (a.k.a. “Tiger Mandingo”), the college wrestler who was sentenced to 30 years behind bars for allegedly not disclosing his HIV status to his sexual partners, is speaking out for the first time since being released from prison earlier this month. In 2015, Johnson was found guilty of “recklessly infecting” multiple male partners with HIV while he was a student at Lindenwood University in Missouri. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison by a jury pool stacked with...

This just in: Michael Johnson (a.k.a. “Tiger Mandingo”), who was unfairly sentenced to 30 years in prison by a homophobic jury for not disclosing his HIV status to his sexual partners, has been released from prison 25 years early. Just to recap: Johnson was accused of “recklessly infecting” multiple male partners with HIV while he was a student at Lindenwood University in Missouri in 2013. In 2015, he was sentenced to 30 years by a jury pool stacked with white heterosexuals,...

Michael Johnson, a.k.a. “Tiger Mandingo,” the former college wrestler sentenced to 30 years in prison for “recklessly infecting” multiple partners with HIV, has penned a heartbreaking letter from solitary confinement. Though the black, gay, 24-year-old had an attorney seemingly unfit to defend him, and a jury pool stacked with white, HIV negative heterosexuals who thought being gay was a sin, he was still sentenced to 30 years in prison and will be forced to register as a sex offender upon release. Blogger Michael Petrelis has...