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After serving six years for kidnaping and rape, Gary Dotson, 28, seemed suddenly to be a technicality away from freedom when Cathleen Crowell Webb, his alleged victim, came forward to confess that she had made up the story. But last week, after listening to Webb recant her testimony in a...
Judge Samuels, who presided at the original trial in 1979, found Webb's new testimony less credible than that of a seemingly terrified 16-year-old girl who had told a brutal tale of kidnaping, assault and rape. Also troubling were parts of Dotson's testimony last week. While a...
Judge Samuels' ruling appeared to follow Illinois legal precedent in cases where witnesses recant their testimony after a conviction. Such retractions are generally viewed with suspicion, and the convictions stand. Said Thomas Royce, a prominent Chicago criminal-defense lawyer: "Recanting testimony is not (in itself) sufficient to impeach a jury...
Gradually, she brought the situation under control. The $1.8 million deficit is being eliminated with a grant from the late Philanthropist Leslie R. Samuels, a music lover who also paid for the acoustical renovation of the New York State Theater, the company's home. New York City Mayor Edward...
"Unlike Mexico City," says Samuels, "Shanghai has no 'Pink Zone' for the wealthy and no squatters living in shacks." - By Otto Friedrich.