Kerry Kotler
A convicted rapist who was freed by the Innocence Project after they cried in the press about how the prosecution was unable to locate the DNA of their client on the clothing of his victim. They even got the state to give him money for his supposed wrongful conviction, only for him to go off and rape another woman.
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>Free, for the first time in nearly a dozen years, Kotler filed a $12 million lawsuit against the state for wrongful imprisonment. He was awarded $1.5 million.
>His victim immediately moved to another state.
>Less than five years later, Kotler was before a judge again. The charge: Rape.
>This time the victim was a 20-year-old college student. On the night of Aug. 12, 1995, the girl was driving along a road in Islandia, Long Island, when a white car pulled up next to her, and the driver flashed a badge and forced her to pull over. By the time she realized this was no officer of the law, it was too late.
>After the rape, her assailant took out a water bottle. He used it, the girl recalled him saying, to rinse away evidence.
>It did not work. Investigators found a semen stain on the victim's dress. This time, genetic analysis left no room for doubt that it came from Kotler. Scientists estimated that the odds of it being another person were one in 7.5 million.
>Other evidence strengthened the case against him. The victim remembered four digits from the license plate, and that led police to a white Pontiac belonging to Kotler's girlfriend. Dog hairs found on the victim's clothes matched those from Kotler's German shepherd.
>In a strange twist, Kotler's defense came down to an attack on the DNA evidence. His attorney, Jack Litman, told the court that his client had been framed by a vindictive police force. He suggested that detectives swiped used condoms from Kotler's trash, and planted the stain on the dress.
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