STORY: "Holtzclaw Supporters Gather In Enid," by reporter Chris Gilmore, published by News 9, on September 9, 2017.
GIST: "A crowd of Daniel Holtzclaw’s family and supporters gathered in his hometown of Enid today in light of documents released in a series of closed hearings related to his appeal. Law enforcement and exonerees joined Holtzclaw’s family during a panel discussion following a screening of a documentary about wrongful convictions. Former Oklahoma City police officer Daniel Holtzclaw was sentenced to 263 years in prison after he was convicted of sexually assaulting multiple women while on the job. Holtzclaw says he won’t be silenced, even behind cell walls. He even called into the panel from prison. Just last month some of the documents from that hearing were unsealed. Paperwork shows it was regarding a "personnel investigation," which, by Oklahoma law, can be kept confidential. However, emails obtained by News 9 suggest the personnel matter is regarding former Oklahoma City police chemist Elaine Taylor. Eric Holtzclaw, Daniel’s father, said the truth needs to come out about what really happened out there and the false narrative that was put out there previously is now being exposed."
The entire story can be found at:
See Michelle Malkin commentary (Malpractice in America’s Crime Labs Is Putting Innocents in Jail, Letting Convicts Off the Hook (July 12, 2017) with reference to former Oklahoma City Police chemist Elaine Taylor at the link below: "JDark history seems to repeating itself at the Oklahoma City Police Department, home of the late forensic faker, Joyce Gilchrist. Known as “Black Magic,” Gilchrist conjured mountains of phony DNA evidence out of whole cloth in collaboration with an out-of-control district attorney over two ruinous decades. Gilchrist, whose tainted testimony sent 11 inmates to their deaths, passed away two years ago unpunished and unrepentant. Now, nearly a quarter-century after Gilchrist’s misconduct was first exposed, Oklahoma City has been rocked by secret hearings held two weeks ago in the case of former Oklahoma City police officer Daniel Holtzclaw. He was convicted in 2015 on multiple sexual assaults after being railroaded by incompetent and biased police detectives and a district attorney’s office more concerned about appeasing the social justice mob than seeking the truth. My investigation of Holtzclaw’s case helped publicize the flawed, sloppy testimony by Oklahoma City Police Department crime lab analyst Elaine Taylor and Assistant District Attorney Gayland Gieger, who misled jurors with false assertions about trace skin cell DNA tied to one accuser found on Holtzclaw’s pants—the only indirect forensic evidence in the case. One of the key attendees at the secret hearings last month was Taylor’s Oklahoma City Police Department crime lab supervisor, Campbell Ruddock. Taylor and Gieger failed to fully inform the jury of unknown male DNA found on Holtzclaw’s pants, as well as DNA mixtures from multiple unknown female and male contributors, which clearly supported the hypothesis of innocent, nonsexual DNA indirect transfer. But Gieger baselessly claimed the DNA came from vaginal fluid (when Taylor conducted no such confirmatory tests for body fluids nor used an alternate light source). Gieger recklessly yoked the phony DNA “smoking gun” in one accuser’s case to all of the accusers’ allegations. At least two jurors publicly stated after trial that the shoddy DNA evidence persuaded them of Holtzclaw’s collective guilt."
PUBLISHER'S NOTE: I am monitoring this case/issue. Keep your eye on the Charles Smith Blog for reports on developments. The Toronto Star, my previous employer for more than twenty incredible years, has put considerable effort into exposing the harm caused by Dr. Charles Smith and his protectors - and into pushing for reform of Ontario's forensic pediatric pathology system. The Star has a "topic" section which focuses on recent stories related to Dr. Charles Smith. It can be found at: http://www.thestar.com/topic/c
