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Douglas Echols

Years Imprisoned:	4
Charge:	Kidnapping and Robbery
Sentence:	15 years
Year Convicted:	1987
Year Cleared:	2002
Location of Trial:	Georgia
Result:	Judicially Exonerated (either after completion of sentence or while released on appeal)
Summary of Case:	Codefendant of Samuel Scott. Wrongly convicted of raping a young woman, who escaped when her assailants argued amongst themselves. The victim led police to the house of Samuel Scott, and arrested him and Douglas Echols. After their arrest the woman identified Scott and Echols as her attackers, however, at trial the two men claimed to have been out with another woman at the time of the attack, and that woman testified on their behalf, as did another witness who said he saw the them at a restaurant at about the time of the attack. In 1996 The Innocence Project at Cardoza School of Law began working on behalf of Scott, who was still imprisoned. In July 2001 DNA test results excluded Scott as the woman's attacker, and subsequent DNA tests excluded Echols. The indictment agaisnt the two men was dismissed on Oct. 7, 2002. Echols was paroled in 1991 after serving 4 yrs of a 15 yr sentence.
Conviction Caused By:	False eyewitness identification by the victim of Samuel Scott and Douglas Echols.
Innocence Proved By:	DNA tests excluded Douglas Echols.
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Compensation Awarded:	Not as of 11-7-02
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Information Source 1:	Rape convictions overturned on basis of DNA evidence, Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, Savannah, GA, 07-04-2002
Information Location 1:	http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/3598293.htm
Information Source 2:	Innocence Project database
Information Location 2:	http://www.innocenceproject.org/case/display_profile.php?id=114
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Ethnicity/Skin:	Black
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Douglas Echols

Years Imprisoned:

4

Charge:

Kidnapping and Robbery

Sentence:

15 years

Year Convicted:

1987

Year Cleared:

2002

Location of Trial:

Georgia

Result:

Judicially Exonerated (either after completion of sentence or while released on appeal)

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

False eyewitness identification by the victim of Samuel Scott and Douglas Echols.

Innocence Proved By:

DNA tests excluded Douglas Echols.

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Not as of 11-7-02

Was Perpetrator Found?

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Information Source 1:

Rape convictions overturned on basis of DNA evidence, Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, Savannah, GA, 07-04-2002

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http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/3598293.htm

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Innocence Project database

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http://www.innocenceproject.org/case/display_profile.php?id=114

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