A man who pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a woman in Fitchburg in 1994 can pursue a DNA test of evidence from the scene to try to prove he didn't do it, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has ruled.
Don Earl Johnson, now 53, has done time in prison in Mississippi and Florida for failing to register as a sex offender in connection with the guilty plea he entered in Massachusetts nearly 25 years ago, before the creation of sex offender registries.
