(AP) Gov. Bob McDonnell has issued a conditional pardon ordering the release of a man who was convicted of a sexual assault his accuser now says never occurred.
The governor's office says the action means that Johnathan Montgomery will be released Tuesday night from the Greensville Correctional Center.
In issuing the conditional pardon, McDonnell called Montgomery's imprisonment a "travesty of justice."
The 26-year-old Montgomery was convicted in 2008 of sexually assaulting Elizabeth Paige Coast. Then 17, the accuser claimed Montgomery assaulted her outside her grandmother's house in Hampton in 2000 when he was 14 and she was 10. Montgomery was sentenced to 7 1/2 years in prison.
Coast now faces prosecution for perjury.
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