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News Coverage of the FSC Meeting

By Steve Hall

"Texas panel meets, skips talk of Willingham case," is the title of Christopher Sherman's full AP report via the Dallas Morning News.A state panel investigating allegations of misconduct and negligence in forensic analyses that led to a 2004 execution hammered out its procedures Friday, but did not resume its long-delayed investigation of the arson evidence in that case. Cameron Todd Willingham was convicted and executed for the deaths of his three daughters in a 1991 house fire near Corsicana. Last summer, the Texas Forensic Science Commission received an arson expert's report that the investigation leading to his conviction was so flawed that its finding could not be supported. Two days before the panel was scheduled to discuss the report and question its author, Gov...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 01, 2010 (boomark / email).