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TFSC panel must resist Bradley's efforts at sabotage

By "Persian Cowboy"

Todd Willingham's cousin (Particia Willingham Cox), and the Innocence Project's Barry Scheck have published the following op ed on Tuesday's Houston Chronicle accusing John Bradley, the Williamson County DA and Perry's appointed puppet to the Texas Forensic Science Commission of trying to halt the investigation of the science in old arson cases. In May 2006, we asked the TFSC to undertake this inquiry about arson evidence. We submitted a 48-page report from an independent panel of the nation?s leading arson investigators, which concluded that the scientific analysis used to convict Willingham was not valid. The commissioners then engaged their own national expert to review the matter, who agreed that the forensic analysis used to convict Willingham was wrong ? and further, that experts who testified at Willingham?s trial should have known it was wrong at the time...continue to full post

Full post as published by Texas Death Penalty Blog on July 24, 2010 (boomark / email).