Gary Dotson
Gary Dotson (* around 1957 ) is the first American person in US criminal history to be acquitted in court on the basis of a post-approved evaluation of DNA traces.
Dotson, then 22, was sentenced to 25 to 50 years imprisonment twice in May 1979 on the basis of a complaint from Cathleen Crowell for rape and kidnapping. The respective judgments were overturned by a court of appeal in 1981. Four years later, Crowell withdrew her statement.
After the public became aware of the case, opinions solidified that Dotson was the victim of a smear campaign. This increased the pressure to re-investigate the case, and in 1998 DNA evidence finally proved his innocence.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rob Warden: First DNA Exoneration. Gary Dotson. accessed on July 15, 2014.
- ↑ Denise Noe: Cathleen Crowell Webb, Gary Dotson and the Rape That Never Was ( Memento of the original from June 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on July 15, 2014
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| SURNAME | Dotson, Gary |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American victim of miscarriage of law |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1957 |