Legal Opinion
Pierce v. Gilchrist
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided March 2, 2004No. 02-6241, 02-6351PublishedCited by 324 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McCONNELL, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff Jeffrey Pierce spent fifteen years in Oklahoma state prison for a rape he did not commit. Because DNA analysis demonstrated that Pierce could not have been the source of the semen found on the rape victim, his conviction was vacated on May 7, 2001, and he was released from prison. Mr. Pierce now seeks compensatory and punitive damages from the system and individual actors who deprived him of fifteen years of his life.
The gravamen of Mr. Pierce’s complaint is that Ms. Joyce Gilchrist, a forensic chemist for the Oklahoma City Police Department (“OCPD”),…
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