ark Webb was wrongfully convicted of a 1985 rape based on the victim’s mistaken eyewitness identification.
Although biological evidence from the crime scene was tested and the results were presented in court, the tests at the time were not sophisticated enough to exclude Webb as the attacker. The tests also could not exclude a large portion of the rest of the population. The defense called several alibi witnesses who testified that Webb was at work at the time of the crime. Unfortunately, the eyewitness identification held more weight with the jury, and Webb was convicted of rape and sentenced to thirty years in prison. In 2001, post-conviction DNA testing proved Webb’s innocence.
Because of a mistaken eyewitness identification, Mark Webb spent thirteen years in prison for a crime he did not commit.
