Marvin Lamont Anderson's Case Study

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The attack occurred in July 1982, in a wooded area in Ashland, Virginia near the apartments where the victim lived. A young white woman had been attacked by a black man on a bicycle. The victim was beaten repeatedly and threatened with a gun. The victim was raped, and sodomized for an unknown amount of time. During the attack, the perpetrator had told the victim that she was nothing special; he’d been with a white girl before. The victim ran home and called police. The first officer on the scene was Ashland police officer W.L. Anderson to arrive at the apartment. Officer Anderson of the Ashland police department spoke with the victim there and at the hospital. Officer Anderson learned that the assailant knew enough about the victim to suggest he lived near her and that he had said he had a white girlfriend. Officer Anderson, who is black but is no relation to Marvin Lamont Anderson, then began asking around about black men living with white women at the apartments. Anderson 's name came up (KRISHNAMURTHY, 2001).
Anderson, then 18, had no police record. The defended was a volunteer firefighter and worked at Kings Dominion. The defended lived in the apartments near the victim with his girlfriend, Stephanie Lynn Parker. Authorities went to Kings Dominion and copied an …show more content…

Which is not a jury of his piers Marvin requested that his attorney call both the owner of the bicycle and Lincoln as witnesses and his lawyer declined because he was reprising Lincoln in another case at the time. Therefore, Marvin was convicted on all counts. Despite his not having a criminal record, and had witnesses to his where abbots proving that he was not the man who did the crime. Marvin was sentenced to more than 200 years in prison. Marvin was convicted of rape, abduction, sodomy and robbery, largely on the basis of this eyewitness misidentification, and was sentenced to 210

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