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Burning Junk Science

By Melody Evans and Kirk Redmond

Grits for Breakfast has this excellent post on the unreliability of arson investigation. The fallacy and inconsistency of this 'science' in increasingly apparent. Too often we assume that expert testimony or forensic science is solid, but it does not take much digging to unearth the 'flawed science' of arson investigation. Grits' post is well-linked and explains the dangers of this forensic arson investigation:Friday, August 15, 2008Forensic Science Commission will investigate science behind Cameron Willingham's capital arson convictionThe Texas Forensic Science Commission met in Houston today and voted to take on their first independent investigation involving an alleged wrongful conviction stemming from flawed forensic science - the case of Cameron Willingham, executed for an arson crime in which the arson investigators on the case later admitted they'd relied on flawed science for their conclusions...continue to full post

Full post as published by Kansas Federal Defender on August 18, 2008 (boomark / email).