ARLINGTON, Va – The NAACP held a press conference Friday to send out a clear message that they will continue to fight for the release of an African-American businessman who they say has been wrongly incarcerated.

It comes just two days after the disappointing news that Georgia’s Attorney General is challenging a court’s ruling that John McNeil received an unfair trial and conviction.

The case, which has drawn national attention, centers on the life sentence given to McNeil in 2006 for killing an armed trespasser at his suburban metro Atlanta home.

Speaking at the conference, NAACP President Benjamin Jealous said, “If a black man in Georgia can’t defend his family” then it’s a disgrace to our Constitution.”