On May 11, 2007, Judge Twyla Mason Gray in Oklahoma County District Court dismissed a 22-year-old murder charge against Curtis Edward McCarty ruling the case could not escape the taint of former police chemist Joyce Gilchrist. Gilchrist was a chemist for the Oklahoma City police department who was filed on Sept. 25, 2001, after 21 years as a police department chemist. She had been investigated by the FBI, and investigations were launched into more than 1,400 of the cases assigned to her.
Oklahoma County DA David Prater said his office will not appeal the decision.
Curtis Edward McCarty, 42, who was twice convicted of the 1982 murder of 18-year-old Pamela Kaye Willis and sentenced to die three times, was released on May 11, 2007.
Taint of Faulty Expert Chemist Testimony Results in Dismissal
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