OKLAHOMA CITY -- A judge Friday dismissed a 22-year-old murder charge against an Oklahoma prison inmate whose conviction was based largely on the testimony of fired Oklahoma City police chemist.


Judge Twyla Mason Gray ruled that the case Curtis Edward McCarty could not escape the taint of former police chemist Joyce Gilchrist.


Oklahoma County District Attorney David Prater said his office will not appeal the decision. McCarty, 42, who was twice convicted of the 1982 murder of Pamela Kaye Willis, 18, and sentenced to die three times, is expected to be released from prison later Friday.
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bless his heart!i am glad he is going to be released.i wonder does our country think about the innocents that are sitting in prison waiting on justice to deliver them from the nightmare of incarceration?

How do they give him back that 22 years? In effect, the state of Oklahoma took the better part of a man's life over a crime he cannot be proven to have committed.

Perhaps that "police chemist" needs to go away for 22 years.

How do they give him back that 22 years? In effect, the state of Oklahoma took the better part of a man's life over a crime he cannot be proven to have committed.

Perhaps that "police chemist" needs to go away for 22 years.

My thoughts EXACTLY DM!!! I have said many times the past few years that if our procecutors and those responsible for sending a person to prison, let alone death row, they should be handed down the same sentence as they were responsible for convicting on. I bet they would be more careful of the testing they are responsible for.

This makes me so angry with our system. :angry:

Perhaps the most fundamental weakness in our judicial system is that those who operate it are essentially above the laws they claim to enforce. Authority must be balanced by responsibility to avoid the risk of tyranny.

God Bless!!!