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Jerry Dixon, 38, has been indicted by a Suffolk County Grand Jury in Boston of several counts of Massachusetts Sex Crimes, including several indictments for Aggravated Rape stemming from three separate incidents in Roxbury and Jamaica Plain.
Dixon was reportedly linked to the three 1991 alleged sexual assaults through a CODIS (“Combined DNA Index System”) hit that is essentially a DNA database maintained by the FBI. According to the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office, Dixon has allegedly been linked to these three sexual assaults after his DNA allegedly matched DNA samples that have been kept from those incidents.
Police were reportedly able to match Jerry Dixon’s DNA after he was convicted of Armed Robbery. In Massachusetts, any person that is convicted of a felony offense is required by statute to submit their DNA to the Massachusetts DNA database, which in turn submits the DNA samples into the CODIS database.
Notably, however, another man, Anthony Powell, was previously tried and convicted of these three 1991 Rapes. Powell was convicted in Suffolk Superior Court in 1992 and spent 12 years in state prison before he was released after DNA technology became available and he was exonerated.
In many sexual assault cases, many people believe that simply because there is an alleged DNA match that there is no defense to the charges. That is not true. In fact, there may be several other explanations and defenses as to why a person’s DNA may be found at the scene of the crime, including the defense of consent, i.e., that no alleged rape occurred at all.
As far as Jerry Dixon’s case goes in his defense against the Sex Crimes of Aggravated Rape, the defense will certainly explore all the evidence that allegedly links him to these crimes, as well as any reasonable explanations as to the reasons for those links.
Boston Criminal Lawyer Lefteris K. Travayiakis has experience and has successfully defended persons charged with Massachusetts Sex Crimes, including Rape, and is available 24/7 for consultation. See Case Results.
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