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Star-Telegram on the Skinner Case

By Steve Hall

"Justice is about getting it right," is the editorial in today's Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Maybe now there can be more certainty about who killed Twila Busby and her sons, Elwin Caler and Randy Busby, in their Pampa home on New Year's Eve 1993.After years of being rebuffed in the courts, Henry W. "Hank" Skinner recently won a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that will allow him to try to get crime-scene evidence put through DNA testing.If that testing yields conclusive results, it could shine light on whether Skinner was wrongly convicted, as he argues, or whether blood, hair and fingernail scrapings point to him as the killer. And: Skinner's case has drawn national attention for several reasons.It tests the scope of the 2001 Texas law giving inmates limited access to DNA testing after they've been convicted...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 15, 2011 (boomark / email).