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John Bradley's Stalled Nomination

By Steve Hall

Rick Casey's latest Houston Chronicle column is, "Senate may save science from politics." It may surprise some folks in the more liberal parts of the nation, but while Texas leads the nation in death penalty executions, it also took an important step in 2005 to lead the nation in improving the science that is used to convict suspects.The Texas Forensic Science Commission was created to police the state's forensic science practices in the wake of the widely publicized scandals at the HPD crime lab. The seven scientists on the nine-member panel have worked vigorously to keep politics out of the panel and use it to promote more professionalism in a field that hardly works like CSI makes it seem.But politics have plagued the commission for 18 months ? ever since Gov...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 07, 2011 (boomark / email).