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Oklahoma County, Okla.
Oklahoma County's presence near the top of America's executioner counties is mostly due to the work of the late, longtime District Attorney Robert "Cowboy Bob" Macy. The favorite of the law-and-order crowd served as head prosecutor in the county for 20 years, from 1980 until 2000. Macy sent 54 people to death row. He once said that executing an innocent person was a risk he was willing to take.
But Macy's legacy has taken a hit in recent years. Toward the end of his career, and in the years since, appellate courts have excoriated him and his deputy prosecutors for misconduct in their pursuit of convictions. The most recent example came last June, when the state's supreme court suspended the law license of former Oklahoma County deputy District Attorney Brad Miller for 180 days, due to his "reprehensible conduct" in a 1993 death penalty case. Two justices voted to disbar him. One wrote, "The actions of the respondent take us into the dark, unseen, ugly, shocking nightmare vision of a prosecutor who loves victory more than he loves justice." But writing for the majority, Justice Yvonne Kauger found that Miller deserved some leniency, because he was just following policies set by his boss, Robert Macy. "Instances of prosecutorial misconducts from previous decades, such as withholding evidence, often were met with nothing more than a reprimand or a short suspension," Kauger wrote.
Macy's time as DA coincided almost directly with the career of disgraced Oklahoma City forensic expert witness Joyce Gilchrist. In fact, Macy used Gilchrist's testimony in nearly half of his death penalty convictions. Gilchrist's knack for matching forensic evidence to the prosecutors' preferred suspect earned her the nickname "Black Magic." Gilchrist's testimony was particularly devastating because Oklahoma judges generally did not grant indigent defendants the funds to hire their own forensic specialists to review her work. Despite her diminishing reputation in the forensics community, Macy's office continued to use her. Macy retired in 2000. In 2001, DNA testing exonerated Jeffrey Todd Pierce for a rape he had been convicted of committing in 1986. Gilchrist's testimony was the main evidence against him. She was fired the following year, and Oklahoma began reviewing over 1,500 cases in which she had testified.
There have been five exonerations in Oklahoma County, including two death penalty cases. There may well be more innocents in prison or on death row from the Gilchrist-Macy era. But if there are, Gilchrist made it more difficult to find them. From CBS News coverage of the police investigation into Gilchrist's tenure at the lab:
The report says that "missing evidence is occurring in major cases." Some of those cases were death penalty cases. According to the report, a freezer breakdown contaminated evidence from hundreds of cases. The report also said that blood analysis files from three entire years -- 1980, 1981, and 1990 -- were missing, and that rape evidence was systematically being destroyed after only two years.
Eleven people convicted mostly or in part due to Gilchrist's testimony have been execute
Taylor said the term "fundamentalist" could go beyond religion and could even include beliefs such as it is acceptable to beat one's children.
Such beliefs "are very harmful but are not normally categorized as mental illness," she said.
On the other hand, Digital Journal cited a Huffington Post report where Taylor warned about possible moral-ethical complications.
Taylor, in her book "The Brain Supremacy," stressed the need "to be careful" when developing technologies that can directly manipulate the brain.
She argued that technologies that profoundly change our relationship with the world around us "cannot simply be tools, to be used for good or evil, if they alter our basic perception of what good and evil are."
Taylor also warned against taking "fundamentalism" to mean radical Islamism.
'Us vs Them'
Digital Journal said some analysts are convinced neuroscientists may adopt a parochial and counterproductive approach if they insist on identifying particular belief systems characteristic of ideological opponents as a subject for therapeutic manipulation.
Also, it noted the potential of religious beliefs, political convictions, and even nationalist fervor could be powerful platforms for "Us vs Them" paranoid delusional fantasies.
Such fantasies could result in a devastating a 9/11-type attack or a Hiroshima/Nagasaki "orgy of mass destruction," it said.
"What we perceive from our perspective as our legitimate self-defensive reaction to the psychosis of the enemy, is from the perspective of the same enemy our equally malignant psychotic self-obsession," it added. -- TJD, GMA
Beyond religion
Oklahoma County, Okla.
Oklahoma County's presence near the top of America's executioner counties is mostly due to the work of the late, longtime District Attorney Robert "Cowboy Bob" Macy. The favorite of the law-and-order crowd served as head prosecutor in the county for 20 years, from 1980 until 2000. Macy sent 54 people to death row. He once said that executing an innocent person was a risk he was willing to take.
But Macy's legacy has taken a hit in recent years. Toward the end of his career, and in the years since, appellate courts have excoriated him and his deputy prosecutors for misconduct in their pursuit of convictions. The most recent example came last June, when the state's supreme court suspended the law license of former Oklahoma County deputy District Attorney Brad Miller for 180 days, due to his "reprehensible conduct" in a 1993 death penalty case. Two justices voted to disbar him. One wrote, "The actions of the respondent take us into the dark, unseen, ugly, shocking nightmare vision of a prosecutor who loves victory more than he loves justice." But writing for the majority, Justice Yvonne Kauger found that Miller deserved some leniency, because he was just following policies set by his boss, Robert Macy. "Instances of prosecutorial misconducts from previous decades, such as withholding evidence, often were met with nothing more than a reprimand or a short suspension," Kauger wrote.
Macy's time as DA coincided almost directly with the career of disgraced Oklahoma City forensic expert witness Joyce Gilchrist. In fact, Macy used Gilchrist's testimony in nearly half of his death penalty convictions. Gilchrist's knack for matching forensic evidence to the prosecutors' preferred suspect earned her the nickname "Black Magic." Gilchrist's testimony was particularly devastating because Oklahoma judges generally did not grant indigent defendants the funds to hire their own forensic specialists to review her work. Despite her diminishing reputation in the forensics community, Macy's office continued to use her. Macy retired in 2000. In 2001, DNA testing exonerated Jeffrey Todd Pierce for a rape he had been convicted of committing in 1986. Gilchrist's testimony was the main evidence against him. She was fired the following year, and Oklahoma began reviewing over 1,500 cases in which she had testified.
There have been five exonerations in Oklahoma County, including two death penalty cases. There may well be more innocents in prison or on death row from the Gilchrist-Macy era. But if there are, Gilchrist made it more difficult to find them. From CBS News coverage of the police investigation into Gilchrist's tenure at the lab:
The report says that "missing evidence is occurring in major cases." Some of those cases were death penalty cases. According to the report, a freezer breakdown contaminated evidence from hundreds of cases. The report also said that blood analysis files from three entire years -- 1980, 1981, and 1990 -- were missing, and that rape evidence was systematically being destroyed after only two years.
Eleven people convicted mostly or in part due to Gilchrist's testimony have been execute
Taylor said the term "fundamentalist" could go beyond religion and could even include beliefs such as it is acceptable to beat one's children.
Such beliefs "are very harmful but are not normally categorized as mental illness," she said.
On the other hand, Digital Journal cited a Huffington Post report where Taylor warned about possible moral-ethical complications.
Taylor, in her book "The Brain Supremacy," stressed the need "to be careful" when developing technologies that can directly manipulate the brain.
She argued that technologies that profoundly change our relationship with the world around us "cannot simply be tools, to be used for good or evil, if they alter our basic perception of what good and evil are."
Taylor also warned against taking "fundamentalism" to mean radical Islamism.
'Us vs Them'
Digital Journal said some analysts are convinced neuroscientists may adopt a parochial and counterproductive approach if they insist on identifying particular belief systems characteristic of ideological opponents as a subject for therapeutic manipulation.
Also, it noted the potential of religious beliefs, political convictions, and even nationalist fervor could be powerful platforms for "Us vs Them" paranoid delusional fantasies.
Such fantasies could result in a devastating a 9/11-type attack or a Hiroshima/Nagasaki "orgy of mass destruction," it said.
"What we perceive from our perspective as our legitimate self-defensive reaction to the psychosis of the enemy, is from the perspective of the same enemy our equally malignant psychotic self-obsession," it added. -- TJD, GMA
