The Nation - News from Feb. 11, 1987

Gary Dotson, whose sentence was commuted by the Illinois governor two years ago in a rape case after his accuser changed her story, was ordered to undergo evaluation for alcohol abuse by a judge presiding at his trial on drunken-driving charges in Markham, Ill. Cook County Associate Judge Marvin Gavin postponed a hearing on the charges until March 24. In 1985, a woman Dotson had been convicted of raping said she had lied about the attack. He later was released from prison by Gov. James Thompson after serving six years of a 25- to 50-year sentence, although the governor said he did not believe the recantation.