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Arson, Todd Willingham, & the FSC

By Steve Hall

Editorials in the Austin American-Statesman and Houston Chronicle this morning take on the Forensic Science Commission following its meeting last week."Science - like death - has its limits," is the Statesman editorial.It is a finding that is at once exculpatory of individuals and damning of a system.In a preliminary determination reached Friday, the Texas Forensic Science Commission said arson investigators used flawed ? or at least now-outdated ? science in their review of a 1991 Corsicana fire that killed three children and led to capital murder charges against Cameron Todd Willingham, their father.Williamson County District Attorney John Bradley, the commission chairman, said at the meeting that investigators cannot be second-guessed for adhering to standards in place at the time of the crime...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 28, 2010 (boomark / email).