. . . What's going on inwards the Sooner State?
by Michelle Malkin: "Frontier justice" costs likewise many citizens of all races, creeds, in addition to backgrounds their liberty in addition to their lives. In the old days of the Wild West, vigilantes worked exterior the judicial arrangement to punish rivals regardless of their guilt or innocence. Today, outlaws operate within the bureaucracy to secure criminal convictions at all costs.
Oklahoma — the notorious abode of "Hang 'Em High" executions — stands out for its decades of trampling due process, subverting world disclosure, perpetuating forensic junk science, manufacturing simulated accusations in addition to enabling official misconduct.
Since 1993, 35 wrongfully convicted Oklahomans convey been officially exonerated, according to the National Registry of Exonerations; xv inmates convey been freed inwards the past times decade. Almost one-half of the state's exonerees had been convicted of murder; 17 per centum for sexual assault. The reign of prosecutorial terror in addition to forensic mistake past times the piece of cake Oklahoma County District Attorney Bob Macy in addition to rogue Oklahoma City law subdivision law-breaking lab analyst Joyce Gilchrist resulted inwards at to the lowest degree eleven wrongful convictions, according to the Innocence Project. Those victims included:
Exoneree Curtis McCarty, who was sent to perish row for a stabbing in addition to strangulation murder afterward Macy withheld bear witness in addition to Gilchrist falsified blood bear witness in addition to destroyed pilus evidence.
Exoneree Robert Lee Miller Jr., some other perish row inmate falsely convicted of ii rapes in addition to ii murders based on a coerced confession in addition to atrocious forensic misconduct involving junk analysis of semen, blood, saliva, human pilus in addition to domestic dog hair.
Exoneree David Bryson, who was wrongfully convicted of kidnapping in addition to rape in addition to freed afterward eighteen years inwards prison theater when Gilchrist's devastation of bear witness was discovered in addition to follow-up deoxyribonucleic acid testing excluded him equally the attacker.
Oklahoma — the notorious abode of "Hang 'Em High" executions — stands out for its decades of trampling due process, subverting world disclosure, perpetuating forensic junk science, manufacturing simulated accusations in addition to enabling official misconduct.
Since 1993, 35 wrongfully convicted Oklahomans convey been officially exonerated, according to the National Registry of Exonerations; xv inmates convey been freed inwards the past times decade. Almost one-half of the state's exonerees had been convicted of murder; 17 per centum for sexual assault. The reign of prosecutorial terror in addition to forensic mistake past times the piece of cake Oklahoma County District Attorney Bob Macy in addition to rogue Oklahoma City law subdivision law-breaking lab analyst Joyce Gilchrist resulted inwards at to the lowest degree eleven wrongful convictions, according to the Innocence Project. Those victims included:
Exoneree Curtis McCarty, who was sent to perish row for a stabbing in addition to strangulation murder afterward Macy withheld bear witness in addition to Gilchrist falsified blood bear witness in addition to destroyed pilus evidence.
Exoneree Robert Lee Miller Jr., some other perish row inmate falsely convicted of ii rapes in addition to ii murders based on a coerced confession in addition to atrocious forensic misconduct involving junk analysis of semen, blood, saliva, human pilus in addition to domestic dog hair.
Exoneree David Bryson, who was wrongfully convicted of kidnapping in addition to rape in addition to freed afterward eighteen years inwards prison theater when Gilchrist's devastation of bear witness was discovered in addition to follow-up deoxyribonucleic acid testing excluded him equally the attacker.
Law enforcement in addition to legal insiders alike convey shared stories with me nearly adept ol' boys fellowship corruption that crosses political party lines inwards the Sooner State. Government prosecutors in addition to criminal defense forcefulness attorneys routinely cutting deals. Judges curvature over backwards to save "harmless errors" caused past times flawed investigations, faulty verdicts in addition to clerical incompetence. Police brass retaliate against whistleblowers. And, according to i veteran cop, Oklahoma City is a hopeless "nest of incestuous nepotism."
Unlike neighboring Texas, where Dallas County prosecutors founded the offset conviction integrity unit of measurement inwards the province (sparking the creation of thirty such agencies nationwide), non a unmarried Oklahoma district attorney's purpose has established an official machinery to review tainted convictions. Nor does Oklahoma convey anything similar the Texas Forensic Science Commission, which investigates professional person misconduct past times law-breaking labs in addition to other entities that deport forensic analyses used inwards criminal proceedings. The Texas panel was created inwards the wake of the infamous scandal at the Houston Police Department law-breaking lab a decade agone in addition to its audits led to the to a greater extent than recent shutdown of the Austin PD's mess of a law-breaking lab.
Meanwhile, no systemic reform ensued afterward the Macy/Gilchrist disgrace inwards Oklahoma. In fact, i of Gilchrist's colleagues who admitted destroying rape kit bear witness at her behest was kept on for nearly xv to a greater extent than years until she mysteriously retired final twelvemonth alongside questions nearly her deoxyribonucleic acid testimony.
OCPD law-breaking lab analyst Elaine Taylor's locomote (challenged past times at to the lowest degree viii independent scientists internationally over the past times year) was at the pump of illegal clandestine hearings final summertime inwards the high-profile wrongful conviction of one-time Oklahoma City law officeholder Daniel Holtzclaw. He is serving 263 years for sexual onslaught allegations solicited past times police, who ignored accusers' wild contradictions in addition to discrepancies, long rap sheets in addition to drug-addled testimony during an out-of-control media feeding frenzy earlier in addition to during trial. Taylor is the mother in law of Det. Rocky Gregory, the co-lead detective inwards the botched Holtzclaw investigation — a glaring conflict of involvement undisclosed past times law in addition to prosecutors.
Kathleen Zellner, the nation's most successful exoneration lawyer defending Holtzclaw against accusers' high-dollar civil lawsuits, quipped that she was "surprised they convey non pose law-breaking scene tape roughly (the) OKC law-breaking lab."
While appealing his case, Holtzclaw has faced a serial of Keystone Kops blunders every pace of the way, with the Court of Criminal Appeals failing to follow its ain rules on publicly disclosing courtroom protective orders; a courtroom clerk who but "forgot" to file a world notice of the province attorney full general requesting the clandestine hearing transcripts in addition to exhibits; the courtroom admitting that Holtzclaw's world defender, James Lockard, shouldn't convey been barred from the unconstitutional clandestine hearings; the courtroom realizing to a greater extent than than a twelvemonth piece of cake that its clerk had never formally filed a critical province attorney general's motion nether seal; in addition to the clerk failing to properly tender Holtzclaw's amended motion for an evidentiary hearing despite it beingness filed with the clerk to a greater extent than than a calendar month ago.
This lackadaisical mental attitude toward matters of life in addition to liberty pervades Okie culture.
Take the example of the missing sealed envelope inwards perish row inmate Julius Jones' appeal. Jones, a basketball game star at the University of Oklahoma, has served xix years inwards prison theater for a murder he steadfastly maintains he did non commit. Recent episodes of ABC's "The Last Defense" spotlighted troubling inconsistencies inwards the testimony of the prosecution's star witness, who took a plea deal; ineffective counsel past times overwhelmed defense forcefulness attorneys who called no witnesses at trial; in addition to the glaring failure to examination a fundamental slice of bear witness — a bandana purportedly warn past times the shooter.
Last December, Jones' appellate lawyers filed an application for post-conviction relief in addition to related motions for regain in addition to an evidentiary hearing to consider newly discovered bear witness of racial animus past times a juror. Jones' lawyers included supporting exhibits, which a courtroom clerk instructed the legal squad to house inwards a split upward envelope labeled "protected material." Through a chain of bureaucratic mishaps, the key exhibits were somehow lost until Jones' investigator, Kim Marks, personally visited the clerk's purpose inwards June in addition to unearthed them. The court, which had rejected Jones' appeal without seeing the missing exhibits, was forced to acknowledge ii weeks agone that it couldn't ignore its clerk's "mismanagement of the exhibits" in addition to has been forced to reconsider the case.
Chilling locomote out fact: Despite its hapless tape on wrongful convictions the past times ii decades, non to scream iii horrific botched executions inwards the final iii years, Oklahoma's incompetent in addition to corrupted criminal judge arrangement is gear upward to resume putting people to perish side past times side twelvemonth come upward hell or high water.
Silence over this human rights crisis is complicity.
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Michelle Malkin is mother, wife, blogger, conservative syndicated columnist, in addition to author. She shares many of her articles in addition to thoughts at MichelleMalkin.com. Aricle shared past times FrontPage Mag
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Unlike neighboring Texas, where Dallas County prosecutors founded the offset conviction integrity unit of measurement inwards the province (sparking the creation of thirty such agencies nationwide), non a unmarried Oklahoma district attorney's purpose has established an official machinery to review tainted convictions. Nor does Oklahoma convey anything similar the Texas Forensic Science Commission, which investigates professional person misconduct past times law-breaking labs in addition to other entities that deport forensic analyses used inwards criminal proceedings. The Texas panel was created inwards the wake of the infamous scandal at the Houston Police Department law-breaking lab a decade agone in addition to its audits led to the to a greater extent than recent shutdown of the Austin PD's mess of a law-breaking lab.
Meanwhile, no systemic reform ensued afterward the Macy/Gilchrist disgrace inwards Oklahoma. In fact, i of Gilchrist's colleagues who admitted destroying rape kit bear witness at her behest was kept on for nearly xv to a greater extent than years until she mysteriously retired final twelvemonth alongside questions nearly her deoxyribonucleic acid testimony.
OCPD law-breaking lab analyst Elaine Taylor's locomote (challenged past times at to the lowest degree viii independent scientists internationally over the past times year) was at the pump of illegal clandestine hearings final summertime inwards the high-profile wrongful conviction of one-time Oklahoma City law officeholder Daniel Holtzclaw. He is serving 263 years for sexual onslaught allegations solicited past times police, who ignored accusers' wild contradictions in addition to discrepancies, long rap sheets in addition to drug-addled testimony during an out-of-control media feeding frenzy earlier in addition to during trial. Taylor is the mother in law of Det. Rocky Gregory, the co-lead detective inwards the botched Holtzclaw investigation — a glaring conflict of involvement undisclosed past times law in addition to prosecutors.
Kathleen Zellner, the nation's most successful exoneration lawyer defending Holtzclaw against accusers' high-dollar civil lawsuits, quipped that she was "surprised they convey non pose law-breaking scene tape roughly (the) OKC law-breaking lab."
While appealing his case, Holtzclaw has faced a serial of Keystone Kops blunders every pace of the way, with the Court of Criminal Appeals failing to follow its ain rules on publicly disclosing courtroom protective orders; a courtroom clerk who but "forgot" to file a world notice of the province attorney full general requesting the clandestine hearing transcripts in addition to exhibits; the courtroom admitting that Holtzclaw's world defender, James Lockard, shouldn't convey been barred from the unconstitutional clandestine hearings; the courtroom realizing to a greater extent than than a twelvemonth piece of cake that its clerk had never formally filed a critical province attorney general's motion nether seal; in addition to the clerk failing to properly tender Holtzclaw's amended motion for an evidentiary hearing despite it beingness filed with the clerk to a greater extent than than a calendar month ago.
This lackadaisical mental attitude toward matters of life in addition to liberty pervades Okie culture.
Take the example of the missing sealed envelope inwards perish row inmate Julius Jones' appeal. Jones, a basketball game star at the University of Oklahoma, has served xix years inwards prison theater for a murder he steadfastly maintains he did non commit. Recent episodes of ABC's "The Last Defense" spotlighted troubling inconsistencies inwards the testimony of the prosecution's star witness, who took a plea deal; ineffective counsel past times overwhelmed defense forcefulness attorneys who called no witnesses at trial; in addition to the glaring failure to examination a fundamental slice of bear witness — a bandana purportedly warn past times the shooter.
Last December, Jones' appellate lawyers filed an application for post-conviction relief in addition to related motions for regain in addition to an evidentiary hearing to consider newly discovered bear witness of racial animus past times a juror. Jones' lawyers included supporting exhibits, which a courtroom clerk instructed the legal squad to house inwards a split upward envelope labeled "protected material." Through a chain of bureaucratic mishaps, the key exhibits were somehow lost until Jones' investigator, Kim Marks, personally visited the clerk's purpose inwards June in addition to unearthed them. The court, which had rejected Jones' appeal without seeing the missing exhibits, was forced to acknowledge ii weeks agone that it couldn't ignore its clerk's "mismanagement of the exhibits" in addition to has been forced to reconsider the case.
Chilling locomote out fact: Despite its hapless tape on wrongful convictions the past times ii decades, non to scream iii horrific botched executions inwards the final iii years, Oklahoma's incompetent in addition to corrupted criminal judge arrangement is gear upward to resume putting people to perish side past times side twelvemonth come upward hell or high water.
Silence over this human rights crisis is complicity.
------------------
Michelle Malkin is mother, wife, blogger, conservative syndicated columnist, in addition to author. She shares many of her articles in addition to thoughts at MichelleMalkin.com. Aricle shared past times FrontPage Mag
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