| First Name | Arvin |
| Last Name | McGee |
| Year of Conviction | 1989 |
| Year of Exoneration | 2002 |
| Testing inculpated culprit | Cold Hit |
| State of Conviction | Oklahoma |
| Trial, Bench Trial, or Guilty Plea | Trial |
| Type of Crime | Rape |
| Death Sentence | No |
| Gender of Exoneree | Male |
| Race of exoneree | Black |
| Juvenile | No |
| Did the defendant testify at trial? | No |
| Types of evidence at trial |
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| Type of Forensic Evidence |
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| Types of Flawed Forensics |
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| Brief Quote / Description of Testimony | The victim was a nonsecretor and the analyst testified that the B substances detected were consistent with the defendants B type. Analyst testified that hairs compared excluded the defendant. |
| Identity of eyewitness |
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| Lineup Procedures |
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| Suggestive Procedures | Yes ● Victim not told attacker might not be in line-up |
| Quotes from testimony #1 | Victim recalled that the officer “just laid them down. He just laid them down and told me to look over them carefully.” |
| Unreliable Identification? | Yes ● Initial nonidentification ● Discrepancies in description – hair |
| Quotes from testimony #2 | Initially selected a filler from photo array, testifying, “I picked out a man that resembled him.” In second array, selected defendants photo, but only after “I studied that picture for awhile,” for about 15 minutes. Description changed from “short” hair to at trial, collar-length to shoulder-length hair. Initial description included hair in a “jeri curl” and a “neat mustache.” |
| Highest level reached | NR |