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David Grann: The Prosecution Defends Itself

By Steve Hall

The author of last week's high voltage New Yorker article has the above titled post at the New Yorker News Desk blog.  LINK  Here's a brief excerpt: Several people have asked me what I thought of the op-ed that John Jackson, the prosecutor in the Willingham case, recently published in the Corsicana Daily Sun. Some observers have already responded to the op-ed. In my article, ?Trial by Fire,? I examine in depth all the key elements of the prosecution?s case that led to Willingham?s indictment and conviction. These elements included the jailhouse informant; the eyewitness testimony regarding Willingham?s behavior during and after the fire; and, most important to the case, the original arson investigation, which Jackson, in his article, acknowledges was ?undeniably flawed...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 08, 2009 (boomark / email).