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PIERCE v. GILCHRIST

Nos. 02-6241, 02-6351.

359 F.3d 1279 (2004)

Jeffrey Todd PIERCE, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Joyce GILCHRIST and Robert H. Macy, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

March 2, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Submitted on the briefs:*

Melvin C. Hall, Riggs, Abney, Neal, Turpen, Oribson & Lewis, Oklahoma City, OK, for Defendant-Appellant Joyce Gilchrist.

John M. Jacobsen, First Assistant District Attorney, Oklahoma City, OK, for Defendant-Appellant Robert H. Macy.

Clark O. Brewster and Guy A. Fortney, Brewster & DeAngelis, Tulsa, OK, for Plaintiff-Appellee Jeffrey Pierce.

Before McCONNELL, Circuit Judge, BRORBY, Senior Circuit Judge, and TYMKOVICH, Circuit Judge.

McCONNELL, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff Jeffrey Pierce spent fifteen years in Oklahoma state prison for a rape he did not commit. Because DNA analysis demonstrated that Pierce could not have been the source of the semen found on the rape victim, his conviction was vacated on May 7, 2001, and he was released from prison. Mr. Pierce now seeks compensatory and punitive damages from the system and individual actors who deprived him of fifteen years of his life.

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