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Cold weather odds and ends

Here are a number of recent stories that deserve Grits readers attention as we all hunker down and wait for the cold weather to blow in:Fire and InnocenceAt the Texas Observer, read David Mann's essay on arson, innocence, and 72-year old, Cambridge educated arson expert Gerald Hurst, who has been thrust into recent controversies because he was the first of many experts to question the fire marshal's arson findings in the Todd Willingham case - before Willingham was executed.Fingerprints, fires and emailThe national Innocence Project blog has a post up about recent developments in Texas forensic politics and policy. See also Rick Casey's column from the Houston Chronicle on the counterintuitive new records policy implemented by new Chairman John Bradley at the Forensic Science Commission, asking "Can email be saved by deleting it?" Bradley clearly thinks the answer is "yes...continue to full post

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