Jeffrey Todd Pierce

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Charge:	Rape and Robbery (including burglary)
Sentence:	65 years
Years Imprisoned:	15
Year Crime:	1985
Year Convicted:	1986
Year Cleared:	2001
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:	"Jeffrey Todd Pierce was wrongfully convicted of rape and released from prison on May 7, 2001 after DNA tests on the rapists sperm and hair didn't match Pierce's. The victim identified Jeffrey Pierce in a line-up 10 months after the rape. Pierce maintained he was innocent and two co-workers corroborated that he was eating lunch with them at the time of the attack."
Conviction Caused By:	"Erroneous expert testimony by the state's crime lab technician, "former police chemist Joyce Gilchrist, that hair left by the rapist was was ''microscopically consistent'' with Pierce's hair." The victim mistakenly ID'd Pierce in a line-up 10 months after the attack."
Innocence Proved By:	Post-conviction DNA test excluded as perpetrator.
Defendant Aided By:	Innocence Project NY
Compensation Awarded:
Was Perpetrator Identified?	Yes
Age When Imprisoned:	25
Age When Released:	40
Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	""Man Freed After Wrongful Conviction," Aaron Cooper (AP writer)"
Information Location 1:	http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%22wrongful+conviction%22&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&hl=en
Information Source 2:	"Man Freed After Wrongful Conviction, AP, NY Times, May 7, 2001"
Information Location 2:	http://nucnews.net/nucnews/2001nn/0105nn/010507nn.htm#630
Information Source 3:	"Pierce v State, 1990 OK CR 7, 786 P.2d 1255 (Affirming conviction)"
Information Location 3:	http://www.oscn.net/applications/OCISWeb/deliverdocument.asp?citeid=11137
Information Source 4:	Innocence Project database
Information Location 4:	http://www.innocenceproject.org/case/display_profile.php?id=87
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Jeffrey Todd Pierce

Charge:

Rape and Robbery (including burglary)

Sentence:

65 years

Years Imprisoned:

15

Year Crime:

1985

Year Convicted:

1986

Year Cleared:

2001

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:

Conviction Caused By:

"Erroneous expert testimony by the state's crime lab technician, "former police chemist Joyce Gilchrist, that hair left by the rapist was was ''microscopically consistent'' with Pierce's hair." The victim mistakenly ID'd Pierce in a line-up 10 months after the attack."

Innocence Proved By:

Post-conviction DNA test excluded as perpetrator.

Defendant Aided By:

Innocence Project NY

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Yes

Age When Imprisoned:

25

Age When Released:

40

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

""Man Freed After Wrongful Conviction," Aaron Cooper (AP writer)"

Information Location 1:

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%22wrongful+conviction%22&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&hl=en

Information Source 2:

"Man Freed After Wrongful Conviction, AP, NY Times, May 7, 2001"

Information Location 2:

http://nucnews.net/nucnews/2001nn/0105nn/010507nn.htm#630

Information Source 3:

"Pierce v State, 1990 OK CR 7, 786 P.2d 1255 (Affirming conviction)"

Information Location 3:

http://www.oscn.net/applications/OCISWeb/deliverdocument.asp?citeid=11137

Information Source 4:

Innocence Project database

Information Location 4:

http://www.innocenceproject.org/case/display_profile.php?id=87

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