Johnson's attorneys said police took him from his grandmother's house and arrested him in connection with the April 14, 1996, murder of Eddie Binion, a drug dealer who was shot and killed in a robbery in his apartment. Johnson's grandmother, Mary Robinson, is now 92. They reunited on Thursday night.

Robert Johnson had been behind bars since he was a teenager. He was freed Thursday night after a jury overturned his murder conviction. There was no physical evidence or witnesses who tied Johnson to the 1996 murder of drug dealer Eddie Binion.