Scriptlets are over 12 years out of date.
You should be using the JSTL and EL.
Using the EL, and assuming that the List is in scoped variable named
whatever, the syntax to fetch a particular element would be:
${whatever[n]}, where n is the index.
For using scriptlet expressions -- which you should not be doing anymore, after all it's 2013 -- your code is missing the equals sign in the syntax.