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| Man freed after 28 years in prison |
| By washingtonexaminer.com |
| Published: 12/16/2009 |
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A Washington man who spent 28 years in prison for raping and murdering a 21-year-old Georgetown University student was released Tuesday after DNA evidence showed he was innocent. Upon setting him free, authorities handed Donald E. Gates a bus ticket, winter clothes and $75. D.C. Superior Court Judge Fred Ugast, who presided over the now 58-year-old's trial, threw out Gates' conviction Tuesday morning. He was released hours later from a prison in Tucson, Ariz. In September 1982, a D.C. jury convicted Gates of killing and raping Catherine Schilling in Rock Creek Park. At the time, he was in the D.C. jail after pleading guilty to trying to rob another young woman weeks before Schilling was found dead in June 1981. Prosecutors told the jury that Gates had admitted killing and raping Schilling to a police informant, according to media reports at the time. Gates' attorney said his arrest for trying to snatch a woman's purse near where Schilling was found was the only reason he was charged with murdering Schilling. Read More. |
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