Wrongful Conviction/ Injustice Community Group
For people and families who have tasted or advocate against the horrors of injustice
Another faulty piece of evidence that was once used to garner hundreds of convictions, especially in sexual assault cases, was hair analysis. Like eyewitness testimony, since the advent of DNA, it has been proven to be very unreliable.
In Oklahoma during the period of time of my investigation and subsequent incarceration, an Oklahoma County DA, Bob Macy, employed a so-called "expert" on hair analysis to help him convict hundreds of innocent men, many of whom would up on death row.
This chemist, Joyce Gilchrist, along with Macy were the devil incarnate.
Gilchrist was finally exposed as a complete fraud, but not before much of the damage was done. No doubt there are still hundreds of innocent men in the custody of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections due to her lies.
She and Macy did their dirty work for years upon years----approaching a couple of decades----but nobody in Oklahoma did anything about it because Macy was so powerful.
Here is a link to an article about these monsters. They were a pair, just like Batman and Robin but more like Bonnie and Clyde.
http://tinyurl.com/ydqznmt
http://tinyurl.com/pcavtla
http://tinyurl.com/krz2k7g
Bob Macy
http://tinyurl.com/lx2pgjh
http://tinyurl.com/key2vmk
This second link is some information where Mark Fuhrman----a racist witness in the O J Simpson murder trial----speaks about a book he has written. Fuhrman was spot on about Gilchrist and Macy, although I generally do not like him. When Mark Fuhrman, usually very pro law enforcement, criticizes the prosecution or the DA in any case, you know something is very wrong.
If you want more to read just Google about Joyce Gilchrist and Bob Macy of Oklahoma.
These people are so evil they have no souls. In fact, I heard a rumor that Satan himself had to expand the borders of hell to be able to accommodate these two monsters.
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In Oklahoma during the period of time of my investigation and subsequent incarceration, an Oklahoma County DA, Bob Macy, employed a so-called "expert" on hair analysis to help him convict hundreds of innocent men, many of whom would up on death row.
This chemist, Joyce Gilchrist, along with Macy were the devil incarnate.
Gilchrist was finally exposed as a complete fraud, but not before much of the damage was done. No doubt there are still hundreds of innocent men in the custody of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections due to her lies.
She and Macy did their dirty work for years upon years----approaching a couple of decades----but nobody in Oklahoma did anything about it because Macy was so powerful.
Here is a link to an article about these monsters. They were a pair, just like Batman and Robin but more like Bonnie and Clyde.
http://tinyurl.com/ydqznmt
http://tinyurl.com/pcavtla
http://tinyurl.com/krz2k7g
Bob Macy
http://tinyurl.com/lx2pgjh
http://tinyurl.com/key2vmk
This second link is some information where Mark Fuhrman----a racist witness in the O J Simpson murder trial----speaks about a book he has written. Fuhrman was spot on about Gilchrist and Macy, although I generally do not like him. When Mark Fuhrman, usually very pro law enforcement, criticizes the prosecution or the DA in any case, you know something is very wrong.
If you want more to read just Google about Joyce Gilchrist and Bob Macy of Oklahoma.
These people are so evil they have no souls. In fact, I heard a rumor that Satan himself had to expand the borders of hell to be able to accommodate these two monsters.
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Which explains the mysterious fevers and my extra fatigue. I'm so glad I pushed for answers.
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Due to my increased paranoia, anxiety, and a panic attack over the weekend, my psychiatrist has put me back in a full dose of Zyprexa until further notice. Every time I think I'm getting ahead something happens and it's back to square one. I knew he was gonna do this but I can't help feeling disappointed. It is what it is.
She also cost the state a boatload of money. Some of the ones exonerated later by DNA sued the state and some won. Other wrongfully convicted inmates were given compensation by the state voluntarily.
Many inmates were not awarded one dime.
A guy I knew of----did not ever talk to him----by the name of Arvin McGee had a case very similar to my case, except the victim really was, indeed, raped, but not by him. He was in prison for 12 years and settled for 12.2 million dollars. He was cleared when the DNA at the scene of the crime was tested and he was not a match.
Sure wish there had been some DNA at the scene of my "crime." I was just out of luck as there was no physical evidence, since there was NO crime to begin with.
When I speak to people, I tell them about these cases and how Oklahoma---and I am sure other states----put thousands of innocent men in prison, some of whom were on death row.
Many just do not want to believe me. They cannot believe that it was that bad during that period of time. Trust me, it was. Also if it happened in Oklahoma, it most likely happened in other states.
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Watch one episode of Judge Judy... Everybody lies
Those in control often conspire to be right... And they're good at it.... Lawyers are just actors that have studied and learned the practice of law....This doesn't just happen once and a while .. It happens on a regular basis... I don't think that lab results are always tainted however there's so much about our legal system that's just wrong and if you don't have money or position you're screwed
Malicious prosecution is a regular thing ... Sorry I'm getting off track... There is just so much that's wrong
So glad to have you and hear your story. I want to give a heartfelt welcome to our board.
Your fiance's story sounds awful familiar, as I am also the product of a wrongful conviction for a sex crime.
There are more innocent people in prison for sex crimes than any other crime for two reasons-----1) sex crimes are the only crime I can think of that only requires the word of the victim for a conviction. In my case and in other's cases I have studied, there was no physical evidence at all, and it was just the defendant's word against the victim's and 2) juries tend to rarely acquit defendants on a sex crime charge as they do not want to take the chance of letting someone free who might go out and attack someone again.
Missouri, along with most of the Bible Belt states are just terrible states for sex offenders.
If the DNA excluded him and the DA said there was not enough evidence to convict, is there a reason he did not go to trial? But as I said, he probably would have been convicted anyway.
Prosecutors use a form of legal blackmail when they offer plea bargains to those with sex offense charges. Initially the DA will charge the defendant with as many charges as possible, with the hope that as many charges as possible will stick. Most of the charges are really ridiculous and would probably be thrown out in an evidentiary hearing, but the case does not get that far.
Then the prosecutor---the DA---will approach the defendant through his defense attorney and tell him, "We have you charged with 'x" number of charges. Each charge carries 10 years. If you decide to go to trial and lose, we will try you on all the charges and ask the judge to run the convictions consecutively. In your case that would be 100 years. BUT we are going to offer you a really good deal. In exchange for a guilty plea, we will drop all the charges except one and sentence you to 10 years on that single charge. To some innocent men, that does sound like a gift.
With the conviction rate close to 90% in state court, even if a person is innocent, most do not want to take the chance of a sentence of 100 years or so. So they plea.
Basically what the DA has done is punish the defendant for exercising his constitutional right to go to trial.
Many people in the general public still cling to the belief that there are very few innocent people in prison and even on death row. I was talking to a lady the other day who said, "I don't think there are hardly any people in prison who were not guilty and none on death row."
One thing about me is that you don't want to leave that kind of opening to be made to look foolish. I tactfully printed off some statistics of the number of innocent men in prison who had been exonerated by DNA evidence and the number of people on death row who were shown to have done absolutely nothing.
Her eyebrows raised and she said, "I never knew that."
You have to educate these people, but you have to do it in a tactful manner.
I am rambling, but welcome to the board.
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