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Junk arson science helped secure capital murder conviction

Walter Reaves, an attorney out of Waco (see his blog here), is becoming the go-to defense lawyer in Texas on arson cases involving antiquated junk science, taking the issue on at a very high level after his client Cameron Todd Willingham was executed based on bad arson science. Here's a story about a case he's working on with the Baylor Innocence Project as reported by KXXV Channel 25 (June 2):New scientific developments in arson analysis may help set free a man convicted of capital murder more than 20 years ago.Ed Graf was convicted of killing his two stepsons by burning them in a backyard shed in 1986. But the burn patterns on the floor that had given prosecutors reason to believe it was arson by gasoline, is now being revisited by scientists using newer knowledge of fires developed in the last two decades...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on June 04, 2009 (boomark / email).