Word: gilchrists
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...Guilty The first complaint about Oklahoma forensic scientist Joyce Gilchrist came in 1987, but it wasn't until January that accusations of questionable work and testimony surfaced. The FBI reviewed eight cases: in five the chemist made claims not backed by science. The state is now investigating some 1,200 more, including those of 12 death-row inmates. Gilchrist has been fired...
...Backup computer tapes were sent in by messenger. Plans were in place to reroute communications from international banking networks, but by the time the system was up, operators were hours behind. "You cater to the worst scenario, but this was worse than we had planned for," says Norman Gilchrist, head of global operations. Yet within 12 hours of the attacks, the bank--assisted by its Plano, Texas-based computer service provider EDS--had processed 19,000 transactions worth $14.3 billion, or nearly 70% of its backlog...
...Mississippi writers Welty mentored and befriended reads like a "Who's Who of American literature, including the late Willie Morris, Richard Ford, Ellen Gilchrist. Forty-eight-year-old Carolyn Haines, author of the critically acclaimed novels "Summer of the Redeemers" and "Touched," said Welty's work played a tremendous role in her decision to become a writer...
...Garza raises another significant issue in his clemency petition: The fact that the jury in his case was not told that they could sentence him to life without parole. Gilchrist said that Garza is the only inmate on federal death row for whom that is true, and the U.S. Supreme Court has weighed in, in other cases, in favor of specific life-without-parole jury instructions. But while that may be an interesting legal question, it is the racial disparity question that is most compelling...
...Releasing any new information a week or two before Garza is slated to be put to death "wouldn't give us much time," said Gilchrist, to process the findings and do anything with them in court. "It's enough so they could say that it wasn't right at the last minute, but not enough to really do much with the information...