Gillespie Case Update

A federal court jury has awarded $45 million dollars to an Ohio man who spent two decades in prison on rape and kidnapping convictions that were later overturned. The Montgomery County jury verdict came in the civil lawsuit filed by Roger “Dean” Gillispie and followed a judge’s declaration last year that he was “a wrongfully imprisoned individual.” The Fairborn man was convicted in 1991 in the rapes and kidnappings of three women in two attacks in Miami Township and Harrison Township. He moved for a new trial in 2008, arguing that new evidence pointed to another suspect and authorities had suppressed exculpatory evidence. A court threw out the convictions and ordered a new trial, and a judge eventually dismissed the case. Gillispie was released in 2011, and the “wrongfully imprisoned” declaration in December paved the way for his civil lawsuit.