MICHIGAN
MLive
By John S. Hausman | jhausman@mlive.com
on May 02, 2014
MUSKEGON, MI – It took less than an hour for a jury to convict Carlton Lindbergh Johnson, a 77-year-old longtime pastor of a Muskegon church, of raping two young relatives and sexually touching a third, over a period of years when they were children.
Johnson, wearing a dark suit with a clerical collar and seated in a wheelchair, showed no emotion as the verdict was read, his expression an unchanging scowl.
In a verdict reached just before 4 p.m. Friday, May 2, jurors found Johnson guilty of two counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct, for sexual penetration of two different girls, and one count of second-degree criminal sexual conduct for sexual contact with a third girl.
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