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Many arson convictions based on invalid science

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My recent conversation about arson cases with Innocence Project of Texas director Jeff Blackburn left me more interested in the issue of how and why people are wrongly convicted of arson based on faulty forensic science, and how many innocent people may be implicated.As it turns out, in 2006 Barry Scheck's Innocence Project in New York sponsored a formal peer review of expert testimony in two Texas arson cases - Cameron Todd Willingham, who was executed for capital murder, and Ernest Ray Willis who was exonerated after courts overturned essentially similar forensic testimony. Here's the full 49-page report (pdf), which is a sad and fascinating read, concluding that:The State?s expert witnesses in both cases relied on interpretations of ?indicators? that they were taught constituted evidence of arson...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on May 11, 2008 (boomark / email).

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