Biography
Lindsey Scott was a Black Marine corporal whose 1983 prosecution at Quantico became the subject of a civil-rights defense campaign. He was arrested in April 1983 and later convicted of rape, sodomy, abduction and attempted murder, receiving a 30-year sentence. Contemporary reporting documents prolonged confinement at Quantico and Fort Leavenworth and support from the SCLC, NAACP and Kentucky Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression. His conviction was overturned in 1987 for inadequate legal representation. The National Registry of Exonerations records his release after reversal and his acquittal on all charges at retrial on February 19, 1988. Exact prison admission and release days remain unverified.
Lindsey Scott was a Black Marine corporal whose 1983 prosecution at Quantico became the subject of a civil-rights defense campaign. He was arrested in April 1983 and later convicted of rape, sodomy, abduction and attempted murder, receiving a 30-year sentence. Contemporary reporting documents prolonged confinement at Quantico and Fort Leavenworth and support from the SCLC, NAACP and Kentucky Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression. His conviction was overturned in 1987 for inadequate legal representation. The National Registry of Exonerations records his release after reversal and his acquittal on all charges at retrial on February 19, 1988. Exact prison admission and release days remain unverified.
Original document 1597, PDF page 15; exonerationregistry.org.
