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Time to Face the Truth in the Willingham Case

By Steve Hall

That's the title of Nina Morrison's post at the Dallas Morning News Death Penalty blog.  LINK  It addresses the recent OpEd, noted here, written by one of Todd Willingham's prosecutors.  Morrison is a staff attorney at the Innocence Project and has been involved in several Texas exonerations.  Here's an excerpt:Judge John Jackson, who prosecuted Cameron Todd Willingham in the 1990s, recently wrote in the Corsicana Daily News that "facts" showing "overwhelming evidence" of Willingham's guilt are being ignored. The truth is that all of the evidence that Jackson and his colleagues used to convict Willingham has been disproven. In the five years since Willingham was executed, several investigations - including an exhaustive report in the New Yorker this week - deconstruct all of the evidence and show that he was innocent...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 02, 2009 (boomark / email).