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Revisionism and Todd Willingham

By Steve Hall

The Innocence Project has compiled an excellent resource page on Todd Willingham.  In announcing it, Eric Ferrero has also called Judge John Jackson, one of the Willingham prosecutors, ow a Texas state district judge, to task: He says that the strongest evidence against Willingham was never the arson analysis -- even though it was clearly the center of the case, since Willingham was being charged with killing his children by setting the fire. The former prosecutor also claims that the fire burned in the shape of a pentagram, which he says proves Willingham worshipped the devil and had satanic influences that led him to commit the crime. See for yourself in this You Tube clip. Jackson wrote the Corsicana Sun OpEd, noted here, that has been refuted on every point in multiple responses, as noted in this post...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 18, 2009 (boomark / email).