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State Panel to Hear Willingham Arson Report

By Steve Hall

That's the title of Jane Jacobs article in today's Corsicana Daily Sun.  LINKAn independent review that claims the arson investigation that led to the execution of Cameron Todd Willingham was flawed will be presented to a state panel Oct. 2 in Dallas.The Texas Forensic Science Commission will hold its next quarterly meeting at 9:30 a.m. Oct. 2 at the Omni Mandalay Hotel at Las Colinas. On the agenda is a review and discussion of the report on the investigation into the Willingham case.Willingham was executed in 2004 for murder, having been convicted of killing his three small daughters in a 1991 house fire in Corsicana. At the request of the Innocence Project the commission contracted with an independent company to review the case for possible forensics errors...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 09, 2009 (boomark / email).