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Shuffling the chairs on the Titanic & the Texas Forensic Science Commission

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

From the wires: In a surprise move, Gov. Rick Perry today appointed two new members to a state commission investigating case of a Corsicana man who some believe was wrongly executed for murdering his children ? forcing the cancellation of a meeting on the case scheduled for Friday. Named to head the Texas Forensic Science Commission was John Bradley, district attorney in Williamson County. Bradley cancelled Friday’s meeting at which the panel was to accept fire expert Craig Beyler’s analysis of arson investigators’ work in the deadly December 1991 house fire.. . . Outgoing commission chairman, Sam Bassett, an Austin defense lawyer, expressed ?disappointment? at Perry’s timing in the naming of new commissioners, but noted, ?I understand that I serve at the pleasure of Gov...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on September 30, 2009 (boomark / email).