Bob & Joyce

For 18 years Bob Macy served as the Oklahoma County, Oklahoma District Attorney. The Nation's leading death penalty prosecutor, Bob personally convicted over sixty murderers and sent 52 of them to death row.

FORMER OKLAHOMA CITY FORENSIC CHEMIST JOYCE GILCHRIST'S ANALYSIS
AND TESTIMONY SENT AT LEAST ONE INNOCENT PERSON TO DEATH ROW

*Defense Attorney Files Suit to Investigate if an Innocent Man was Executed

*Alfred Brian Mitchell's Death Sentence Overturned - Re-sentencing Ordered

Gilchrist has been repeatedly accused of false testimony and shoddy results in her work during the past 15 years. She has been involved in approximately 3,000 cases, including at least 23 cases where defendants were eventually sentenced to death and
have either been executed or remain on death row. 11 of those people were executed during the past two years, including Marilyn Plantz and Randall Cannon who was executed on July 23rd - despite strong doubts as to his guilt because of Joyce Gilchrist's testimony.

Oklahoma County District Attorney Robert Macy, who often relied on testimony from Gilchrist, announced his resignation effective June 30, 2001.



Death Row Inmate Freed After Murder Charge Dropped
Fired Chemist Allegedly Destroyed Evidence

POSTED: 10:57 am CDT May 12, 2007
UPDATED: 11:09 am CDT May 12, 2007


OKLAHOMA CITY -- A former Oklahoma death row inmate whose conviction was based largely on the testimony of a fired Oklahoma City police chemist walked out of jail Friday after a state judge dismissed a 22-year-old murder charge against him.

District Judge Twyla Mason Gray ruled that the case against Curtis Edward McCarty could not escape the taint of former police chemist Joyce Gilchrist and that Gilchrist acted in "bad faith" by losing and destroying evidence that could have been used to show McCarty's innocence.

"Frankly, all of the evidence that Joyce Gilchrist collected, if she inventoried it, if she stored it, if she analyzed it, I believe that it is so questionable that it is difficult to determine if it has any evidentiary
value," Gray said.

McCarty, 42, was released from the Oklahoma County Jail at about 12:15 p.m. Attorneys and family members escorted him to a waiting gray mini van through a crowd of reporters who asked him if he thought he would ever be freed.

"Actually, I did," McCarty said. "It's kind of a hollow victory for everybody I think."

McCarty's lead attorney, Perry Hudson, said McCarty's release means he will finally be able to reunite with his terminally ill mother.