Defense: Throw Out Arrest of Drifter Accused in Sex Assault
A public defender for Dennis Dodson, the drifter accused of sexually assaulting a then-83-year-old woman at a Home Depot near Oak Forest, is filing a motion to quash the arrest based on the identification of Dodson in a photo array.
A public defender for a homeless man accused of sexually assaulting an elderly woman is questioning the photo identification of her client and announced Thursday that she is filing a motion to get his arrest thrown out. Dennis Dodson, 36, is currently in Cook County jail and appeared in Judge John J. Hynes' Bridgeview courtroom in his customary khaki Department of Corrections uniform and ponytail. Prosecutors say on Sept. 26, 2011, Dodson wrestled an elderly woman to the ground, and sexually assaulted her behind the Home Depot at 159th Street and Harlem Avenue near Oak Forest, where he was living at the time. She had offered Dodson food and crackers two days prior, and returned to tell him she was working to find him a shelter, according …
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Darnell
10:54 am on Wednesday, January 23, 2013
@ Mike F. : Do you wish to @ dispute the fact Quinn has closed mental institutions, not manned Thomson prison which remains vacant and just announced a new early release program where inmates only have to serve 60 days of their sentence and be good little crooks to be released? After he cancelled the last early release program because a early releasee violently attacked a woman. Would you like to… more ›