Word: gilchrist
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...murdering three people in a grocery-store holdup. Mark was sentenced to death. A year later Fowler's mother Anne Laura was raped and murdered, and a man named Robert Lee Miller Jr. was sentenced to die for the crime. The same Oklahoma City police department forensic scientist, Joyce Gilchrist, testified at both trials. But DNA evidence later proved she was wrong about Miller. He was released after 10 years on death row, and a man previously cleared by Gilchrist was charged with the crime. Fowler can't help wondering if Gilchrist's testimony was equally inept at the trial...
Last week gave Fowler even more reason to wonder. A state judge ordered a man named Jeffrey Pierce released after serving 15 years of a 65-year sentence for rape. Gilchrist placed him at the scene of the crime, but DNA evidence proved he was not the rapist. In response, Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating launched a review of every one of the thousands of cases Gilchrist touched between 1980 and 1993, starting with 12 in which death sentences were handed down. But in another 11 of her cases, the defendants have already been put to death. The state is giving...
...also intensely personal. DiFranco, who married her sound engineer, Andrew (Goat Boy) Gilchrist, three years ago, says that she has found living and working with the same person "24/7" difficult, and that Reckoning deals with that strain. "In the past, music has been a way that I've had to empower myself," says DiFranco. "Reckoning is about 'How do you show yourself at your weakest?'" On one song, the casually jazzy So What, DiFranco sings about a doomed relationship: "Who's gonna take the call/ when you find out that the road ahead/is painted on a wall?" On Marrow...