| First Name | Marcus |
| Last Name | Lyons |
| Year of Conviction | 1988 |
| Year of Exoneration | 2007 |
| State of Conviction | Illinois |
| Trial, Bench Trial, or Guilty Plea | Trial |
| Type of Crime | Rape |
| Death Sentence | No |
| Gender of Exoneree | Male |
| Race of exoneree | Black |
| Juvenile | No |
| Type of Innocence Defense |
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| Description / Quotes from Testimony Concerning Defense | Missing defense case portion of trial transcript |
| Did the defendant testify at trial? | Yes |
| Types of evidence at trial |
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| Identity of eyewitness |
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| Lineup Procedures |
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| Suggestive Procedures | Yes ● Suggestive line-up – only one in six was wearing a shirt and tie and only one repeated ● Victim not told attacker might not be in line-up |
| Quotes from testimony #1 | Officer told victim – “I related to her that I had a series of photographs that I would like her to look at, and in looking at them, to look carefully and only identify a picture if she knew that was the offender.” "And as a matter of fact, among those six photographs, is there one photograph that the collar of a dress shirt and a tie is clearly visible? A. Yes. Q. And that is to the exclusion of the other six, correct? A. Correct. Q. And that one photograph is of my client, Marcus Lyons, correct? A. That’s correct." The victim “saw the photo lineup with my client’s picture in it one day and five other people, and the next day, she saw a physical lineup with my client standing in it and five people that presumably she had never seen before and certainly are not included in that photo lineup, correct? A. That’s correct. Q. But there is one guy that was the same both days, right? A. That’s correct.” |
| Highest level reached | NR |