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Jury gives inmate 20 years after 11-minute deliberation

Appling County jury takes little time to convict man of beating two COs at pre-release center

By Terry Dickson
The Florida Times-Union

APPLING COUNTY, Ga. — An Appling County jury took just 11 minutes to convict a Waycross man of assaulting two guards at a pre-release center after which a judge sentenced him to 20 years in prison, officials said.

Ironically Antinto Seantre Johnson, 34, was just three weeks from release in April 2012 when he attacked two officers at the Appling County Pre-release Center. He injured one so badly he had to retire on disability, said Lee J. Sweat, the Appling County chief deputy.

“It took about a half a dozen to get him subdued,’’ Sweat said.

Full story: After 11-minute deliberation, South Georgia inmate gets 20 years