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Rick Casey on the FSC Meeting

By Steve Hall

His column in today's Houston Chronicle is, "Let's have a cheer for small victories."  It's a must-read of the back-and-forth of the Commission meeting.Williamson County District Attorney John Bradley, who was dispatched last September by Gov. Rick Perry to take control of the troublesome set of scientists known as the Texas Forensic Science Commission, continued to pursue his mission on Friday. It was just one round in what promises to be a protracted fight over whether the body will become a national model of how to improve the use of science in fighting crime, or just another secretive, bureaucratic body perceived as protecting licensed professionals rather than policing them.Bradley struck the first blow immediately upon his appointment by shutting down the commission for nearly four months, saying he needed to develop proper procedures to be used by the scientists in their investigations of complaints of bad science being used in criminal investigations and prosecutions...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 26, 2010 (boomark / email).