Submitted by Shari on Wed, 06/30/2004 - 20:00.
Oklahoma police chemist Joyce Gilchrist, fired in 2001 for shoddy and even fraudulent forensics work in hundreds of cases, has once again made headlines. An Oklahoma police memo leaked to the Associated Press in April outlines compelling evidence that Gilchrist “intentionally lost or destroyed” evidence that could have proven the innocence of death row inmate Curtis Edward McCarty. The police chemist’s original notes on McCarty’s hair sample showed that it did not match those found at the crime scene, excluding him as a suspect.