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| Man Freed on DNA Back in Jail |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 03/12/2002 |
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The first inmate released from a South Carolina prison through DNA testing was in a Florida jail Friday, charged with sexually assaulting a child. Perry Mitchell, 40, served 14 years of a 30-year sentence for the 1982 rape of a 17-year-old girl in Lexington County, S.C. He was released in 1998 and granted a new trial after genetic testing of the evidence ruled him out as the rapist. On Feb. 27, Mitchell was charged in Orlando with sexually molesting a 9-year-old girl. Mitchell was being held without bond on several charges, including three counts of sexual battery involving a child under 12. Donnie Myers, the South Carolina prosecutor who put Mitchell in prison the first time, said he's not surprised. 'When he was released, I told somebody in my office, `Well, it won't be long before he's in trouble again,'' Myers said. Mitchell declined a request for a jailhouse interview and family members in Orlando did not return calls for comment. After Mitchell's South Carolina conviction was overturned, Myers said he couldn't find the victim and decided not to pursue the case. The South Carolina attorney general's office has no immediate plans to revisit the DNA tests, spokesman Rob McBurney said. |
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