Citing "fundamental unfairness,"Missouri's appeals court has overturned the 30-year sentence given to Michael Johnson, a Lindenwood University wrestler convicted of knowingly exposing his sexual partners to HIV.
The case is now kicked back to St. Charles County for a new trial.
Johnson, then 21, was charged with five felony counts in 2013, with police alleging he failed to tell his sex partners that he was HIV positive. Johnson had appealed his sentence on two grounds — first, that phone calls he'd made from jail should not have been admitted into evidence, and second, that his sentence was "grossly disproportionate" to his alleged crimes.…