Winston Lamont Scott

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Charge:	"Rape, Sodomy and Burglary"
Sentence:	14 years
Years Imprisoned:	5.67
Year Crime:	1975
Year Convicted:	1976
Year Cleared:	2019
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Virginia
County or Region of Crime:	Fairfax
City of Crime:	Reston
Result:	Judicially Exonerated
Summary of Case:	"Winston Lamont Scott was wrongly convicted in 1976 of Rape, Sodomy and Burglary committed against a 19-year-old woman in Fairfax County, Virginia on July 24, 1975. Scott's prosecution was based on his identification by the victim in a photo spread, and again in court. After his conviction Winston Scott was sentenced to 14 years. Scott was paroled in 1981 after more than five years in custody. Scott filed a petition to vacate his conviction based on post-conviction DNA testing that in 2017 excluded him as the woman's assailant. Winston Scott's conviction was vacated on March 7, 2019 by the Virginia Supreme Court. The Court unanimously ruled that in consideration of the new DNA evidence, “no rational trier of fact would have found him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.” Scott was one of 13 men cleared of a felony crime since 2005 when Virginia passed a post-conviction DNA testing law. A bill was submitted in the Virginia legislature to award Scott compensation of $160,000 for his wrongly imprisonment."
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Innocence Proved By:	"Winston Scott's conviction was vacated on March 7, 2019 by the Virginia Supreme Court. The Court unanimously ruled that in consideration of the new DNA evidence, "no rational trier of fact would have found him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.""
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Compensation Awarded:	"$160,000 (State of Virginia, 2020)"
Was Perpetrator Identified?
Age When Imprisoned:	19
Age When Released:	25
Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	Black
Information Source 1:	"Compensation bill has been filed to pay nearly $160,000 to man wrongly convicted of 1975 rape in Va., By Frank Green (staff), Richmond Times-Dispatch, January 13, 2020"
Information Location 1:	https://www.richmond.com/news/local/crime/compensation-bill-has-been-filed-to-pay-nearly-to-man/article_00ac8584-4860-589e-a4b9-5c69992d47d1.html
Information Source 2:	"Bill to compensate Virginia man wrongfully convicted of 1975 rape advances., By Frank Green (staff), Richmond Times-Dispatch, February 19, 2020"
Information Location 2:	https://www.richmond.com/news/virginia/bill-to-compensate-virginia-man-wrongfully-convicted-of-rape-advances/article_5071e79d-a0a9-5129-951f-107f5507dded.html
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Winston Lamont Scott

Charge:

"Rape, Sodomy and Burglary"

Sentence:

14 years

Years Imprisoned:

5.67

Year Crime:

1975

Year Convicted:

1976

Year Cleared:

2019

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Virginia

County or Region of Crime:

Fairfax

City of Crime:

Reston

Result:

Judicially Exonerated

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

"Winston Scott's conviction was vacated on March 7, 2019 by the Virginia Supreme Court. The Court unanimously ruled that in consideration of the new DNA evidence, "no rational trier of fact would have found him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.""

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

"$160,000 (State of Virginia, 2020)"

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

19

Age When Released:

25

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Black

Information Source 1:

"Compensation bill has been filed to pay nearly $160,000 to man wrongly convicted of 1975 rape in Va., By Frank Green (staff), Richmond Times-Dispatch, January 13, 2020"

Information Location 1:

https://www.richmond.com/news/local/crime/compensation-bill-has-been-filed-to-pay-nearly-to-man/article_00ac8584-4860-589e-a4b9-5c69992d47d1.html

Information Source 2:

"Bill to compensate Virginia man wrongfully convicted of 1975 rape advances., By Frank Green (staff), Richmond Times-Dispatch, February 19, 2020"

Information Location 2:

https://www.richmond.com/news/virginia/bill-to-compensate-virginia-man-wrongfully-convicted-of-rape-advances/article_5071e79d-a0a9-5129-951f-107f5507dded.html

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