Wrongly Convicted Database Record
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Charge: |
Sexual Assault and Kidnapping |
Sentence: |
85 years |
Years Imprisoned: |
16 |
Year Crime: |
1982 |
Year Convicted: |
1983 |
Year Cleared: |
2003 |
U.S. State or Country of Crime: |
Oklahoma |
County or Region of Crime: |
Oklahoma |
City of Crime: |
Oklahoma City |
Result: |
Judicially Exonerated Released |
Summary of Case: |
David Johns Bryson. Bryson was one of four people exonerated as of November 2014 whose convictions were based on the expert testimony of Oklahoma City police laboratory chemist Joyce Gilchrist. |
Conviction Caused By: |
Erroneous expert testimony of Joyce Gilchrist. |
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Age When Imprisoned: |
28 |
Age When Released: |
44 |
Sex: |
Male |
Skin/Ethnicity: |
White |
Information Source 1: |
"David Johns Bryson, The National Registry of Exonerations" |
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https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=3067 |
Information Source 2: |
"Exonerations In The United States 1989 Through 2003, Samuel R Gross et al, The Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology, Vol. 95, No. 2, 2005" |
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