A federal court overturned the sentence of Oklahoma...

A federal court overturned the sentence of Oklahoma death row inmate Alfred Brian Mitchell because of the false and misleading testimony by Oklahoma City police chemist Joyce Gilchrist at trial. The court said that Gilchrist, who is currently suspended while state and local agencies review cases in which she testified, knew her testimony was false because of other evidence that was withheld from the defence. The judges also denounced prosecutors for withholding exculpatory evidence from the defence and for deliberately misleading jurors, stating that such conduct "strikes a heavy blow to the public's trust" of prosecutors. The prosecutor's duty is not to win cases, said the court, it is to see "that justice is done."