This is what people mean when they say the Justice System isn’t fair and balanced. This man didn’t commit this crime but still has to have the conviction on his record.
An Oklahoma man who spent more than 30 years in prison for rape in southeastern Oklahoma is free after the Innocence Project presented DNA evidence it said excluded him from the crime.
Court records show 56-year-old Perry Lott was released Monday.
Lott was sentenced in 1988 to more than 200 years for rape, robbery, burglary and making a bomb threat related to the 1987 attack on a woman at her home in Ada, about 65 miles southeast of Oklahoma City.
Pontotoc County District Attorney Paul Smith declined to vacate the convictions, but offered to modify the sentence to time served.
Innocence Project attorney Karen Thompson said Tuesday that she’s frustrated Lott wasn’t exonerated.
“It’s just a travesty, I don’t think there’s a better word for it, but I’m thrilled he’s out and he’s home,” Thompson said. “Mr. Lott just decided that after it was offered, time served, that he didn’t want to spend one more day in prison. He was exhausted; he was tired.”
He still has to register as a sex offender which is insane, but when you don’t have the complexion for protection this is what happens.