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Oklahoma Man Freed Years After Conviction
By Associated Press
Published: 05/09/2001

Jeffrey Pierce paid a price for his principles.
Had he admitted to raping a woman in 1985, he could have left prison on parole.
Had he just agreed to enter a sex-offender treatment program, he might have kept some personal privileges.
But Pierce would not, insisting for 15 years that he was not a rapist. 'I stood my ground for all these years, and I wasn't about to bow down now,' he said.
On Monday, Pierce, 39, walked out of prison after prosecutors confirmed that he had been wrongfully convicted of rape, based partly on testimony from a police chemist now under investigation for incorrectly identifying evidence.
Pierce bitterly blamed the Oklahoma County district attorney's office and the Oklahoma City Police Department, and accused them of sending other innocent people to prison. He said he planned to file a lawsuit.
'I hope you all won't forget about them, too, because there are more,' he said. 'I'm just the one that opened the door, and I feel there will be a lot more coming out behind me.'
A jury found Pierce guilty in 1986 of sexually assaulting a woman, based on her identification of him and of testimony from Oklahoma City police chemist Joyce Gilchrist.
Problems with Gilchrist's work came to light after Pierce's case was re-examined under a program meant to put older cases through today's more sophisticated DNA tests.
During Pierce's trial, Gilchrist testified that hair left by the rapist was 'microscopically consistent' with Pierce's hair. But Oklahoma County prosecutors received a report Monday from a California laboratory that said a DNA test showed sperm and hair taken from the scene of the rape were not from Pierce.
Gilchrist, now on paid leave, also testified in the cases of 12 inmates who are on death row in Oklahoma and 11 who have already been executed. Those cases are being re-examined, as are hundreds of others she worked on.
The chemist has said she will be exonerated. In a report to air Tuesday night on CBS, Gilchrist told '60 Minutes II' that she is willing to have her forensic work reviewed.
'Let's submit that DNA analysis and see,' Gilchrist said. 'I look forward to that and if I'm wrong, you know, I would accept responsibility if I'm wrong, but I've never intentionally done anything wrong in a case I've ever been involved in.'

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