Lindsey Scott

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Charge:	Rape
Sentence:	35 years
Years Imprisoned:	4
Year Crime:
Year Convicted:	1983
Year Cleared:	1988
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Virginia
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Corporal Lindsey Scott was wrongly convicted by a military court in 1983 of rape. Scott's prosecution was based on his identification by the victim. Activist Lori Jackson took up his case after receiving a letter from Scott. It was discovered that the prosecution had concealed a medical report prior to the first trial that excluded Scott as the woman's attacker. Scott was at a department store at the time of the time of the woman's attack. It was also discovered that the military prosecutors failed to disclose that the victim was uncertain when she picked Corporal Scott from the photographic lineups and had also identified other men as resembling her attacker. The national program 60 Minutes did a segment on Scott's case. On July 7, 1987 the United States Court of Military Appeals overturned Scott's conviction and ordered a new trial based on the failure of Scott's civilian attorney to provide effective assistance of counsel. After a retrial Scott was acquitted by a military jury on February 19, 1988. The lead prosecutor in Scott's first trial, Major Donald Thomson, USMC, said: "I think that if I was the defense counselor, and had (this) case, I would rip the prosecution to shreds." That is what happened during Scott's retrial. Lori Jackson died 9 months after Lindsey Scott's acquittal in 1988."
Conviction Caused By:	Erroneous eyewitness identification by the victim. Prosecutorial Misconduct of concealing a medical report excluding Scott as the woman's attacker.
Innocence Proved By:	Acquitted by military jury after a retrial.
Defendant Aided By:	"Activist Lori Jackson and media attention to the injustice of his case, such a segment on 60 Minutes."
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Was Perpetrator Identified?
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	Black
Information Source 1:	"Dangerous Evidence, Ellis A. Cohen with Milton J. Shapiro, Berkley Books, NY, 1995"
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Information Source 2:	"Wife of Marine Accused of Rape Sobs to Court, 'He Did Not Do It," Molly Moore (staff writer), Washington Post, Oct. 6, 1983, "
Information Location 2:	http://www.geocities.com/murder_stories3/lori_jackson2.html
Information Source 3:	"Marine Acquitted at 2d Assault Trial, By Associated Press, The New York Times, February 20, 1988"
Information Location 3:	http://www.nytimes.com/1988/02/20/us/marine-acquitted-at-2d-assault-trial.html
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Book About Case:	"Dangerous Evidence, Ellis A. Cohen with Milton J. Shapiro, Berkley Books, NY, 1995"
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Lindsey Scott

Charge:

Rape

Sentence:

35 years

Years Imprisoned:

4

Year Crime:

Year Convicted:

1983

Year Cleared:

1988

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Virginia

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Erroneous eyewitness identification by the victim. Prosecutorial Misconduct of concealing a medical report excluding Scott as the woman's attacker.

Innocence Proved By:

Acquitted by military jury after a retrial.

Defendant Aided By:

"Activist Lori Jackson and media attention to the injustice of his case, such a segment on 60 Minutes."

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Black

Information Source 1:

"Dangerous Evidence, Ellis A. Cohen with Milton J. Shapiro, Berkley Books, NY, 1995"

Information Location 1:

Information Source 2:

"Wife of Marine Accused of Rape Sobs to Court, 'He Did Not Do It," Molly Moore (staff writer), Washington Post, Oct. 6, 1983, "

Information Location 2:

http://www.geocities.com/murder_stories3/lori_jackson2.html

Information Source 3:

"Marine Acquitted at 2d Assault Trial, By Associated Press, The New York Times, February 20, 1988"

Information Location 3:

http://www.nytimes.com/1988/02/20/us/marine-acquitted-at-2d-assault-trial.html

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Book About Case:

"Dangerous Evidence, Ellis A. Cohen with Milton J. Shapiro, Berkley Books, NY, 1995"

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