The Nation - News from Aug. 28, 1987
Illinois prosecutors dropped charges against convicted rapist Gary Dotson for allegedly striking his wife. However, Dotson, who won headlines in 1985 when the woman he was convicted of raping stepped forward to recant her testimony, remains in jail as prosecutors seek to prove that he violated the terms of his release in an earlier drunken-driving case. Illinois Gov. James R. Thompson commuted Dotson’s 25- to 50-year rape sentence on Mother’s Day, 1985, after Cathleen Crowell Webb testified she made up her earlier testimony.
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