The Nation - News from Sept. 18, 1989

Gary Dotson, recently cleared in a celebrated rape case, was arrested on criminal trespass charges at the home of his estranged wife, Camille, the Cook County Sheriff’s Department said. Dotson was taken into custody in Skokie, north of Chicago. Authorities said that the trespassing charge is a misdemeanor and Dotson was freed on $100 bond. Dotson, 32, was cleared on Aug. 14 in a 1977 rape case that drew national attention in 1985, when the woman who had made the allegation, Cathleen Crowell Webb, recanted her testimony. Prosecutors dropped all charges against Dotson, who had spent nine years in prison.