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The politics of reexamining flawed arson forensics

While I was away from the blog for a day or so (in Dallas for the Innocence Project of Texas' annual meeting), several items cropped up which deserve Grits readers attention regarding the Todd Willingham case and parallel inquiries into arson science at the Forensic Science Commission and a court of inquiry in Austin.At a meeting yesterday, members of the Forensic Science Commission called out Chairman John Bradley for issuing statements to the media calling Willingham a "guilty monster." The Austin Statesman reports thatMembers of the Texas Forensic Science Commission, investigating whether questionable science played a role in the conviction and 2004 execution of Cameron Todd Willingham, criticized the panel's chairman Friday for labeling Willingham a "guilty monster...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on October 16, 2010 (boomark / email).