Richard L. Samuels
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Richard L. Samuels
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Richard L. Samuels was a Cook County Circuit judge at the Sixth Municipal District Courthouse in Markham, Illinois, for nearly 30 years. His most (in)famous Case was the high profiled rape case against Gary Dotson during the 1970s and 1980s. Dotson is the first American man who was to be exonerated of a criminal conviction by DNA evidence. Samuels ordered Dotson back to prison, after the putative victim, Cathleen Mae Webb, of the alleged 1977 rape, recanted. Later Samuels upheld Dotson's convict
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American judge
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_L._Samuels
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2014-06-05T17:55:04Z
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2024-09-11T03:22:35Z
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