Man Not Criminally Liable For Trail Attack

Faced up to 51 years in prison, suffers from schizophrenia

A schizophrenic Pasadena man who attacked a young woman on the Baltimore & Annapolis Trail last fall was committed to the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Monday.

Michael Jovante Johnson, 22, of Willing Court, entered an Alford plea in county Circuit Court in Annapolis to first-degree assault, stemming from the Sept. 10, 2010, daytime attack of an Anne Arundel Community College student near Marley Station mall.

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